THE METAPHYSICS OF THE TREE LINE: Part 10 Deep Ecology for the 21st Century
Guest: Arne Naess Program 2725
Host: Michael Toms Interview Date: 4/3/1998 Program Length: 1 Hour
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Program Description: Well into his eighties, Arne Naess, known as "the father of deep ecology," still carries his own firewood and water to a simple stone cabin that he built himself above the treeline near the Arctic Circle in Norway. This, he insists, is a fabulously rich way of life. "Our notion of richness must not be equivalent to the number of material things and dollars we possess," he says. "It's quality. Which needs are not satisfied? None. And isn't that richness, to satisfy one's needs? Yes." He describes the joys of this lifestyle, his moving memories of WWII and mountain climbing expeditions, how he was influenced by Gandhi, the challenges of aging, lessons from trees, and more. This is a rare visit with an extraordinary elder. Included in DEEP ECOLOGY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 1 hour
Naess has been a professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo, a leader of environmental civil disobedience, a prominent mountain climber who once scaled his office building as a practical joke, and the prolific author of Ecology, Community and Lifestyle.
Topics explored in this dialogue:
Personal relationships with fish, crabs and a mountain
A radical definition of what it means to be rich
The joy of mosquitoes
How mountains expand the mind and soul
How to meet angry resistance to ecological activism
