Deep ecology- Arne Næss

Friluftsliv ‘free-air-life’• Specific for Norway, should be appreciatie by the world.

• Don’t talk about going out but go in and into nature.

Arne Næss

King Olav X (1957 – 1991)• Friluftsmann (free air person)• New Year’s television speeches to the people of Norway are

about Norway’s nature. • “Yes, we do love this country . . .” It is not conceived as our

country, in the sense of a country belonging to humans, it belongs to itself. “

• the King expresses the population's love of the majestic land in his humility and love. No talk about its constitution, its democracy, the country's material progress.

Henrik Ibsen 1828 - 1906• Used friluftsliv in writting for first time 1859

• Poem “På Viddene” (On the Mountainplateau)

• Ibsen warns that when there is a conflict between economic interests and health, people will generally support what gives them employment and income.

http://www.zukbb.de/zuk/fileadmin/zuk/images/content/_download/WS5_Presentasjon_friluftsliv_Tyskland.pdf

Deep ecology movement • A movement within environmentalism in a broad sense.• ‘Nature is the true home of culture’

• people who are committed to the conservation of nature• Reasons:

• Life philosophy• Religion

Goal of the writer• Difference between development and nature policy

• Developed country’s tend to forget about nature.

• The world can learn something about the Norwegian nature policy even though they have made their own mistakes.

Discussion• Country’s don’t belong to humans, they belong to itself.

• Conflict between economic interests and health, people will generally support what gives them employment and income.

• Does industrialization equals development?