And while yes, I do think that consumer culture is abhorrent and that it stands in the way of human liberation, I am not convinced that lowering the standard of living helps. And this would likely carry over to all oppressed social identities. I once overheard a deep ecologist tell a disabled man that in the future there would be no wheelchairs as the industrial production of them would be too polluting. His solution was that for those disabled who survived they could be carried everywhere. Needless to say that disabled man remains firmly anthropocentric.
Deep ecology seems to have two heads.
Radical social transformation will come when we all submerge our egos into the great unity of nature. We should give up our demands for selfhood and the redistribution of wealth in the name of Mother Earth. Pollution is a social justice issue. The other stream of deep ecology is more akin to the social Darwinism and neo-Malthusianism espoused by neoconservatives than any leftist position. Seems to me that one of the political positions that this suggests is Fascism.