nmentalism so that the natural world can be either protected or reconstructed. Along the same lines, Oelschlaeger (1991) covers the perspectives of resourcism, preservationism, ecocentrism, and so-called deep ecology, which appears to be an argument for the return to a postmodern premodernism, finally arguing, in the preservationist vein, that notions of wilderness in the postmodern era ought to include a social philosophy that finds a coexistent place for human claims in the ecosystem.
Meanwhile, there are arguments about which terms are most useful and most accurate in any environmental discussion. Chiefly, these arguments appear to center on where the human factor will be considered as the basis for all environmental discussion. Tribe (1974) criticizes the "inadequacies of . . . homocentric perspective" in a discussion anchored by the "planting" of plastic trees along Los Angeles boulevards.
The perpetually green lawn and the plastic tree, far from representing the outcroppings of some inexplicable human perversion, are expressions of a vie
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