We're Nature-lovers who are committed to applying our respect for Nature to our everyday lives. To view Nature as our source of spirituality and practical, daily wisdom is our goal.
As opposed to "Bright" or "Lite" Green methods, i.e., promoting technological fixes or simplistic lifestyle changes in the face of serious environmental issues, we aim to take a "deeper", "darker" approach to Nature.
As eco-writer Daniel Quinn mentioned in his novel Ishmael, the "Leavers", represented best by indigenous peoples worldwide, live in harmony with Nature and minimise their "ecological" and "carbon footprint". This is not to romanticise their societies, but simply to point out that humans were meant to survive and thrive by living in deep communion with Nature.
The "Takers", by contrast, seek to dominate Nature and shape her into their image. They are best characterised by Western industrial civilisation, which is unfortunately serving as the global role model for developing nations trying to catch up and enjoy a piece of the upper class pie. This mad dash for resources and keeping up with the Jones is resulting in a planet sagging under the burden of overpopulation, runaway carbon, methane and other harmful emissions, and trashing of our one and only home. And despite the fantasies of some, the human race will never be able to escape the planet to colonise elsewhere amidst the cosmos. We're stuck here. There will be no magical provision of a new earth, nor a messianic figure to rescue us. It's our responsibility to re-align our societies, communities, families and individual lives with Nature, her limits and opportunities.
"Deep Dark Green" promotes the formation of local groups that promote public and private adoption of the "Leaver" worldview and lifestyle. We are Nature-lovers who seek to live deeply green lives, and encourage people of others to do the same, whether or not they agree with pantheism. We work with interfaith, community-based and other groups fostering deep green ideas and actions.
Despite bleak predictions of environmental and societal collapses for the future, we seek to do what's right today simply because it's right, not only to extend how long humans will last upon the earth. As one Chinese proverb says, we fight for doing right by Nature, "with our backs to the river".
As opposed to "Bright" or "Lite" Green methods, i.e., promoting technological fixes or simplistic lifestyle changes in the face of serious environmental issues, we aim to take a "deeper", "darker" approach to Nature.
As eco-writer Daniel Quinn mentioned in his novel Ishmael, the "Leavers", represented best by indigenous peoples worldwide, live in harmony with Nature and minimise their "ecological" and "carbon footprint". This is not to romanticise their societies, but simply to point out that humans were meant to survive and thrive by living in deep communion with Nature.
The "Takers", by contrast, seek to dominate Nature and shape her into their image. They are best characterised by Western industrial civilisation, which is unfortunately serving as the global role model for developing nations trying to catch up and enjoy a piece of the upper class pie. This mad dash for resources and keeping up with the Jones is resulting in a planet sagging under the burden of overpopulation, runaway carbon, methane and other harmful emissions, and trashing of our one and only home. And despite the fantasies of some, the human race will never be able to escape the planet to colonise elsewhere amidst the cosmos. We're stuck here. There will be no magical provision of a new earth, nor a messianic figure to rescue us. It's our responsibility to re-align our societies, communities, families and individual lives with Nature, her limits and opportunities.
"Deep Dark Green" promotes the formation of local groups that promote public and private adoption of the "Leaver" worldview and lifestyle. We are Nature-lovers who seek to live deeply green lives, and encourage people of others to do the same, whether or not they agree with pantheism. We work with interfaith, community-based and other groups fostering deep green ideas and actions.
Despite bleak predictions of environmental and societal collapses for the future, we seek to do what's right today simply because it's right, not only to extend how long humans will last upon the earth. As one Chinese proverb says, we fight for doing right by Nature, "with our backs to the river".