Discussion with John. Its a real pleasure to participate in this forum, since the article expressed things that I'd been struggling to say for years. I had been closely following the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, and buddhist social ethics in general, while an activist in the Green and socialist movements. In Bookchin's case, it was to insist that human hierarchy was unnatural, the cause of our estrangement from nature.
Bad things are also products of evolved ecological complexity.
Deep Ecology is in profound contradiction with Buddhism on this point. Anyway, thank you John for finally getting this essay out into noosphere. To Govern Evolution says, we're gonna impact nature, so let's learn to do it responsibly.