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- adjective Focused on
ecological concerns.
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Examples
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Leo Marx's critique of recent attention to Henry David Thoreau's late-life "ecocentric" turn [NYR, June 24 and July 15] makes strong, important claims not only about Thoreau's life and writings but also about the proper way to understand literature (particularly literature of a "pastoral" sort) and the proper direction of the whole environmental movement to boot.
An Exchange on Thoreau Buell, Lawrence 1999
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Now I declared, to myself if no one else, that I was "ecocentric" too.
openDemocracy Paul Kingsnorth 2010
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The "ecocentric," transnational "green state" Eckersley envisions is represented as an explicit alternative to "the classical liberal state, the indiscriminate growth-dependent welfare state, and the increasingly ascendant neoliberal competition state."
Claremont.org 2009
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The "ecocentric," transnational "green state" Eckersley envisions is represented as an explicit alternative to "the classical liberal state, the indiscriminate growth-dependent welfare state, and the increasingly ascendant neoliberal competition state."
Claremont.org 2009
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The "ecocentric," transnational "green state" Eckersley envisions is represented as an explicit alternative to "the classical liberal state, the indiscriminate growth-dependent welfare state, and the increasingly ascendant neoliberal competition state."
Claremont.org 2009
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'ecocentric' traditions of green thought and politics.
MRZine.org 2010
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Pangea sells what it calls "ecocentric bodycare" products: cleansers, scrubs, creams, toners, masks, lotions and soaps, among other items.
Pangea Organic's line of natural skin-care products is growing 2009
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I drove the ecocentric 104bhp BlueMotion, which was thrifty and yet remarkably perky.
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Thus, ecocentric realization is an anthropocentric experience!
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As I pointed out, one of the strengths of Gaian ethics is that its moral obligations can be justified from a purely anthropocentric position as well as from an ecocentric position.
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