This critique of industrial culture is wide, and cuts across cultural boundaries. It is presented from a diversity of places, both within and outside of industrial culture. It is partly from such a critique that support for indigenous peoples arises. However, application of this model and its financial and technological systems to all areas of the planet results in destruction of habitat, extinction of species, and destruction of indigenous cultures. The biodiversity crisis is about loss of critical species which perform necessary biological functions, and it is also about loss of multitudes of other values which are good in themselves and depend on preservation of natural diversity and wild evolutionary processes.
Industrial society is a monoculture in agriculture and forestry, and in every other way.
Its development models construe the Earth as only raw material to be used to satisfy consumption and production to meet not only vital needs but inflated desires whose satisfaction requires more and more consumption. Its monocultures destroy cultural and biological diversity - both good in themselves. Endorsing the deep ecology platform principles leads us to attend to the ecosophies of aboriginal and indigenous people so as to learn from them values and practices which can help us to dwell wisely in neighboring places. We also learn from the wisdom of our places and the many beings which inhabit them. At the same time, the ecocentric values implied by the platform lead us to recognize that all human cultures have a mutual interest in seeing Earth and its diversity continue for its own sake and because we love it.