Social ecology “seeks to fundamentally transform society to abolish the
nation-state and capitalism. As such it is integrally embedded in the
tradition of the left, especially the revolutionary libertarian left. Social
ecology calls for a decentralized, libertarian politics based on the
tradition of direct democracy, known as libertarian municipalism. It
proposes a face-to-face democracy that can potentially create an
institutional counterpower to the nation-state and capitalism, and
thereby lead to the creation of an ecological society.” Red Pepper In the ’70’s and ’80’s, particularly in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest, a very similar-sounding bio-regionalist movement called for — and perhaps lived out — the devolution of the state, finding expression in Peter Berg’s Planet Drum (no, not the Mickey Hart project) and poet Gary Snyder’s thinking.