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Ecological wisdom

 
Wikipedia: Ecological wisdom

The term ecological wisdom, or ecosophy, is a philosophy of ecological harmony or equilibrium. It was introduced by Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess in 1973. The concept is the outgrowth of the environmentalism of the 1960s and has become one of the foundations of the deep ecology movement.

All expressions of values by Green Parties list ecological wisdom as a key value—it was one of the original Four Pillars of the Green Party and is often considered the most basic value of these parties.

It is also often associated with indigenous religion and cultural practices.

In its political context, it is necessarily not as easily defined as ecological health or scientific ecology concepts. It refers in part to biomimicry (imitating the efficiency of nature's services and bodily forms).

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