Envirocentrism

This is really the concept that meets with the most direct resistance from conventional disciplines. 350 years of science has taught us the exact opposite. You have called this view, in the past, an extreme kind of organocentrism. It is. You have called for a compromise between extreme organicentrism and extreme envirocentrism.

At the same time, however, one can hardly avoid concluding that their promotion of bio- and ecocentrism or envirocentrism is often carried to notable excess.

That may be, but the fact is, envirocentrism was completely alien to the religion of our Asatru forebears. Those who today portray the real, historical religion of our ancestors as "nature centered" are either falsifying our history, or are ignorant of it. What historical Asatruar might have believed, and how they might have acted in another time and place is stuff for science fiction, not reality.

Since the predominant capitalist system has tended to co-opt significant areas of conservation thought, conservation’s ideological fault lines lie along complicated ethical terrain. They include varying ethical views of the following: / • Anthropocentrism and envirocentrism, including differing religious and philosophical views

Envirocentrism expands the concept of community beyond human interactions to give basic rights to natural surroundings that humans are obligated to protect as members of the land community, the socioenvironmental system of place-based interactions.