  While Sylvan views the development of deep ecology sympathetically, he distances himself from the positions being argued for under that banner. His own “deep green ethics” is described most clearly in Sylvan and Bennett (1994, ch. 5). Like deep ecology, the position is, using the term originally coined in Naess (1973), “deep” since it rejects the sole value assumption and greater value thesis. But unlike deep ecology Sylvan rejects, in particular: