Blog 6

Shallow v. deep? Covering up a problem v. trying to fix it? That is what Naess is addressing in these next couple sections. He talks about how shallow ecologists only look at the problem and could even say that technology will fix it for now. Throughout this section Naess tries to really explain what deep ecology means, and although I still don't completely understand, I can see that Naess is trying to actually find a solution to the problem in the long run, and not just cover up the problem with what is available now.

If we continue to only look at the problem right now, and only fix what we can with what we have, in the long run we are constantly creating a bigger problem. I think this is a major thing that humans are having to deal with, and when we do deal with it, we don't think that anything bad can come from our "solution" to the problem.

Naess continues on with how he can call something "deep" if it has certain characteristics, all of which address previous ideas of other people. For example, Schweitzer's biocentric viewpoint is one of the characteristics that Naess believes makes it "deep."

This section was kind of confusing for me so I am hoping class will clear things up and I can post more later. =]