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There has been somewhat vehement dispute among so-called radical ecologies, especially between social ecology and deep ecology, on allegedly eco-fascist and misanthropic tendencies found in a number of writings and words of some deep ecological scholars and activists. For social ecologists, being led by Murray Bookchin, the founder of social ecology, deep ecology adheres to the same reactionary, antihumanistic, romantic, and irrational assumptions that presaged National Socialism and that are discernable in the work of Heidegger, the former Nazi. I think that social ecologists' attacks on deep ecology are largely unfair. But, it seems that we may get a very precious lesson from the dispute. Confronting the era of ecological crisis, we are apt to appeal to authoritarian measures to overcome it. To avoid such danger, we must do thoughtful self-examination and close listening to the criticism before jumping to hasty conclusions.