Which way for the Ecological Movement?

Bookchin calls for a critical standpoint that transcends both 'biocentrism' and 'ecocentrism'. a call for new politics and ethics of complementarity, in which people, fighting for a free, non-hierarchical and cooperative society, begin to play a creative role in natural evolution. Bookchin attacks the misanthropic notion that the environmental crisis is caused mainly by overpopulation or humanity's genetic makeup.

He resolutely points to the social causes - patriarchy, racism, and a capitalistic 'grow or die' economy, as some of the problems the environmental movement must deal with. These ideas have to be confronted by environmentally concerned readers if the ecology movement is not to destroy its own potential as a force for social change and the achievement of a truly ecological society.