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As Chim Blea suggests, Deep Ecology as Political Philosophy 23 I thank pieces of wood I gather for my fire, I treat as sacred whatever I eat or use to fulfill vital needs whether it be animal, plant or mineral. . —with whom we come into contact with compassion and bonhomie. 71 Here, again, there is a soft anthropocentrism at work in Nature sacralization. People must continue to cut and burn trees, kill and eat plants and animals, or isolate and kill germs to fulfill vital needs in humanly defined ecocommunities.
Every ritual includes the idea of activity as a determined process which magic can nevertheless influence. . '"42 Magic is based on the specific, not die universal, concrete representation, not substitutional abstractions, and impersonations of demonic or divine spirits, not methodical operational manipulations of matter. It can contain its own dialectic of enlightenment. Mythological ritual sets off the process of Deep Ecology as Political Philosophy 13 enlightenment until enlightenment itself becomes an animistic magic.
Should humanity act otherwise, or let it be? Deep ecology should not necessarily have all the answers now, but it does need substantive criteria for arriving at answers in the future. Right now, however, all that deep ecology seems to offer are new symbolic rituals of sacralization instead of substantive rational criteria for choosing between alternatives. As Chim Blea suggests, Deep Ecology as Political Philosophy 23 I thank pieces of wood I gather for my fire, I treat as sacred whatever I eat or use to fulfill vital needs whether it be animal, plant or mineral.