in bold contrast to the limitations of the animal advocacy movement aam and all other reformist causes takis fotopoulos advances a broad view of human dynamics and social institutions their impact on the earth and the resulting consequences for society itself combining anti-capitalist radical democracy and ecological concerns in the concept of "ecological democracy" fotopoulos defines this notion as "the institutional framework which aims at the elimination of any human attempt to dominate the natural world in other words as the system which aims to reintegrate humans and nature this implies transcending the present instrumentalist view of nature in which nature is seen as an instrument for growth within a process of endless concentration of power