Is ecology in the process of becoming the object of our contemporary passions, in the same way that Fascism was in the 30s, or Communism under Stalin In iThe New Ecological Orderi, Luc Ferry offers a penetrating critique of the ideological roots of the Deep Ecology movement spreading throughout Germany, France, and the United States. pTraditional ecological movements, or democratic ecology, seek to protect the environment of human societies they are pragmatic and reformist. But another movement has become the refuge both of nostalgic counterrevolutionaries and of leftist illusions. This is deep ecology. Its followers go beyond practical critiques of human greed and waste they call into question the very possibility of human coexistence with nature. The human species is no longer at the center of the world, but subject to a new god called Nature. For these purists, man can only soil the harmony of the universe. In order to secure natural equilibrium, the only solution is to grant rights