Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality

In 2007 an article appeared in the science journalTrends in Ecology and Evolutionwith the witty title, ‘Mind the Sustainability Gap’. The gap in question refers especially to the ecological dimension of the sustainability agenda and concerns the chasm that continues to yawn ever wider between ‘what we know needs to be done and what is actually being done’ to avert catastrophic climatic and environmental change (Fischer et al. 2007: 621). While the authors acknowledge ‘regional-scale improvements in some indicators of poverty, food supplies and the environment’, they argue that these are ‘overshadowed by ongoing deterioration of key biophysical