Deep Ecology
Living beings enjoy the right to live and flourish independently of their impact on human beings. Deep ecology as a philosophy tries to restructure human beings according to the idea of equal rights. Living organism depends on each other either directly or indirectly for survival. According to the deep ecology platform, several planks are underlying this course, but several of them are challenging to undertake. The lack of right to devalue the life of nonhumans, policy change, and ideological change is most challenging.
There is a great challenge in supporting the rights of human beings without infringing on the rights of the nonhumans. According to (De Jonge, 2017), the rights of nonhuman life can only be upheld by changing the human perception towards the world. Human rights are diverse and changing the way humans have a higher risk of breaking some of the rights. For example, some cultures may involve damaging nonhuman life and changing these cultures is a massive task.
Changing the policies of the economic, technological and political structures appears to be a great strategy. However, the greatest challenge comes in, however, when this change has to take effect in the whole world. Effecting a change is always a big challenge because people tend to stand for what they are used to. A reason behind this challenge could be that new structures could come with additional risk.
There is a challenge facing the attempt to change the ideologies of human beings. The effort involves appreciating life rather than championing for better living standards which are not taken in good faith by human beings. The ideologies of any group should be respected as much as the rights of nonhumans are to be accepted.
In conclusion, the planks in the deep ecology are faced with a greater challenge than anticipated. There challenges generally come up due to competition between human and nonhuman life. For a reasonable impact from deep ecology, attention should be on the challenges rather than the planks.