ABSTRACT
The environmental movement began roughly at the same time as feminism, but it did not become politically important until the turn of the twentieth century. Environmentalists decry the anthropocentrism plaguing the modern world. They warn that science, technology, urbanism, the population explosion, and global warming combine with anthropocentrism to create a desperate circumstance in which the very existence of the Earth is threatened. Deep ecologists, the most extreme in the movement, demand that people see themselves as little more than creatures who, along with all others, are merely passengers on Spaceship Earth; and that people subordinate their interests to those of nature as a whole. Humanistic ecologists argue instead that while people may exploit the Earth’s resources, nature must be respected so that humanity can survive.
