Eco anarchism

Eco-anarchism Anarchist’s believes in a stateless society, in which harmony develops out of mutual respect and social solidarity amongst human beings. The richness of such a society is founded upon its variety and diversity. Ecologist also believe that balance or harmony spontaneously develops within nature, in the form of eco systems and these, like anarchist communities, requires no external authority or control. The anarchist’s rejection of government with in human society thus parallels the ecologist warning about human rule within the natural world. Bookchin therefore linked an anarchist community to an eco system, and suggested that both are distinguished by respect for the principles of diversity, balance and harmony. Anarchist’s has also advocates the construction of decentralized societies, organized as a collection of communes or village. Life in such communities would be live close to nature, each community attempting to achieve a large degree of self-sufficiency. Such community would be economically diverse; they would produce foods and wide range of goods and services, and therefore contain agriculture, craftwork and small-scale industry. Self-sufficiency would make each community depends upon its natural environment, spontaneously generating an understanding organic relationship and ecology. In Bookchin view decentralization would lead to a more intelligent and more loving use of the environment. A society regulated by spontaneously sympathy amongst human beings is therefore likely to encourage an ecological balance between human beings and the natural world. The Green movement also adopted ideas such as decentralization, participatory democracy and direct action from anarchist thought. However, even when anarchism is embraced as providing a vision of an ecological sound future, it is seldom accepted as a means of getting there. Anarchist believes that progress will only be possible when the government and all forms of political authority are overthrown. In contrast many in the green movement see government as an agency through which collective action can be organized and therefore as the most likely means through which the environmental crisis can be addressed, at least in the short term. They fear that dismantling or even weakening government may simply give free rein to those forces that generated industrializations and blighted the natural environment in the first place.