Taylor makes no attempt to summarize or explore the relationship between philosophy, science and practice in the Ecoforestry Project, the Wildlands Project, the Sustainable Agriculture Project or other projects initiated and supported for several years by the Foundation for Deep Ecology. The most serious problem I see in this book, however, is that Taylor and his co-authors are so intent on expounding their own interpretation of deep ecology that they don't allow participants to reflect on their own actions. The social analysis by the International Forum on Globalization, supported by the Foundation of Deep Ecology is another body of literature that is ignored by Taylor and his co-authors. Stark continues the deliberate misinformation about the deep, long-range ecology movement begun by Murray Bookchin and George Bradford. Stark presents a shallow, misguided, intellectual distortion of the deep, long-range ecology movement.
Deep ecology is neither modernism nor postmodern.
Both have been extensively criticized by leading scholars who are supporters of the deep, long-range ecology movement. Stark, and many other authors in this volume, simply ignore the fact that supporters of deep, long-range ecology movement have stated over and over again. In conclusion, this reviewer cannot recommend this book either to college students, to movement activists who are interest in reflective commentary on their activism, nor to academic colleagues in the social sciences who are interested in the topic of ecological resistance movement. Scholars would do better to read the original essays in the growing body of literature of the deep, long-range ecology movement, including books by Alan Drengson, Andrew McLaughlin, Arne Naess, Gary Snyder and Joanna Macy. We are in the midst of an expanding, worldwide war on nature and a war on those who defend the integrity of natural communities and local, indigenous communities.