Deep ecology facts for kids

Old-growth forest in Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro

Deep ecology is an environmental philosophy which promotes the worth of all living beings regardless of whether they can be used for human needs, plus the restructuring of modern human societies in accordance with such ideas.

Deep ecology argues that the natural world is a complex relationship in which the existence of organisms is dependent on the existence of others within ecosystems. It argues that non-vital human interference with or destruction of the natural world poses a threat therefore not only to humans but to all organisms constituting the natural order.

Deep ecology's core principle is the belief that the living environment as a whole should be respected and regarded as having certain basic moral and legal rights to live and flourish, independent of its instrumental benefits for human use.

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  YPJ members in a greenhouse farm, for ecological cooperative farming in Rojava (AANES)

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In Spanish: Ecología profunda para niños