Deep and shallow both share the idea that it is important to take care of the environment, but they have very different reasons for thinking so. Deep ecology is the noblest of the two. It does not pretend to care about the environment for its gains. It believes we must take care of it for the sake of all that is in it and that lives in harmony with it. It is not just about animals or plants but also about lakes and mountains. It also believes we are not at the center of it all but only a part of the bigger whole and that the whole could even benefit from our extinction. Shallow ecology, on…