Blog #10

Social ecology is quite interesting, and it follows similar lines to deep ecology, though not quite so "deep".  Like deep ecology, social ecology sees life on earth as an interconnected web, where all life is interdependent.  It sees hierarchy as an unnatural system of control, and views our entire society as hierarchical, and as so, problematic.  I can kind of relate to this.  I feel like hierarchical systems are divisory by their very nature, yet what are we dividing?  Dividing parts of a ecological system that we're also a part of.  It is this very system that allowed us (humans) to come into existence, yet, we see it as imperfect, and something that can be divided and destroyed without consequence.  I think a much better quality of life can be had by all if we worked together, instead of viewing everything as a competition.