Dobson's contribution is to bring out, in a convincing manner, the revolutionary implications of ecologism. As I noted in my original review, Dobson has an essentially negative view of the environmental movement. So, for Dobson, environmentalism somehow comes to be equated with light green and contrasted with ecologism. This is not a review then, but a commentary on some issues which have been preoccupying me recently. Perhaps I am unaware, but there is only one deep ecology philosopher that I know, who claimed to be an anarchist - the brilliant and iconoclastic Richard Sylvan, who unfortunately died in 1996.
Mass participation is excluded by representative democracy.
All policies in a dark green sustainable society must uphold this non-human centeredness as a first principle. Opposing all increased economic growth policies. In order to advance this, social equity and the redistribution of wealth considerations for the human species must be brought to the foreground in any deep green political formation. Advocating and advancing policies for the dismantling of industrial society. The scale of the changes are indicated by Rudolf Bahro's mid 1980s call for industrialized countries to reduce their Earth impact to about one tenth at that time.