Posts tagged “dreams”
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Derrick Jensen reads from “Upping the Stakes” and answers reader questions
May 19, 2011
Derrick Jensen joined Orion Magazine staff and readers for a live web event on May 17, 2011. Jensen read from his essay in the May/June 2011 issue of Orion, “To Live or Not to Live,” and answered questions submitted by listeners on this and other essays he’s written for his column “Upping The Stakes.” Listen to the audio here.
Tags: aric mcbay, audio, deep green resistance, derrick jensen, dreams, interview, lierre keith
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“To Live or Not To Live”: Derrick Jensen’s recent column in Orion Magazine
May 12, 2011
“I’m far more interested in stopping the tragedy before it’s too late than I am in feeling sorrow or empathy for those who cannot or will not change their destructive behavior. What’s worse is that in this human-culture-as-tragic-hero narrative, the flaw is nothing so ignoble as greed, lust, jealousy, or even indecision. Rather, the tragic flaw this culture ascribes to itself is intelligence. We’re simply too smart to allow life on the planet to continue. And of course we are unable to change, so there is nothing to be done. Cue the tears, drop the curtain.”
Tags: derrick jensen, dreams, environment, orion magazine, what we leave behind
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Derrick Jensen and the “Age of Ooops”
March 11, 2011
I’m not the only person who has noticed that those who are destroying the planet almost never pay any real costs themselves. What happened to Tony Hayward, CEO of British Petroleum, who among others should be held accountable for the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill? He was released from his position with a $1.6 million severance payment, as well as an annual pension of about $1 million (he also holds several million shares of BP stock). While some daring souls have boldly asked whether it might be a teensy bit appropriate to, ahem, politely request an inquiry into whether this severance package should be reduced even the tiniest bit, I’ve not seen many public calls (though I’ve heard a lot of private calls) for Hayward’s head to be paraded around New Orleans on a pike.
Tags: derrick jensen, dreams, economics, environment, orion magazine
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Derrick Jensen on the economy: “The Tyranny of Entitlement”
January 28, 2011
“There are an awful lot of people who . . . simply absorb the perspective of the newscasters who say, “Economic growth, good; economic stagnation, bad.” And of course if you care more about the economic system than life on the planet, this is true. If, however, you care more about life than the economic system, it is not quite so true”
Tags: derrick jensen, dreams, economics, environment, orion magazine
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Press Action talks with Derrick Jensen
January 26, 2011
That reusable shopping bag you bring to the market has zero impact. Your home composting kit is not gonna start a revolution. In fact, even if every single person in the US made every single change suggested in the movie An Inconvenient Truth, carbon emissions would fall by only 21%—in contrast to the 75% emissions decrease that scientific consensus believes must happen … now. None of this, of course, is news to Derrick Jensen.
Tags: derrick jensen, dreams, interview, press action
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Derrick Jensen and Chris Hedges on totalitarianism and resistance
July 16, 2010
On July 5, Derrick Jensen and Chris Hedges talked with Royal University professor Michael Truscello about totalitarianism — about the point at which ordinary people start to realize that they have been deliberately and systematically disenfranchised by the systems that control them — and about what people can and must do to resist. Watch by clicking below.
Tags: chris hedges, deep green resistance, derrick jensen, dreams, environment, interviews, michael truscello, politics/government, truthdig
“dreams” Posts
- May 19, Derrick Jensen reads from “Upping the Stakes” and answers reader questions
- May 12, “To Live or Not To Live”: Derrick Jensen’s recent column in Orion Magazine
- Mar 11, Derrick Jensen and the “Age of Ooops”
- Jan 28, Derrick Jensen on the economy: “The Tyranny of Entitlement”
- Jan 26, Press Action talks with Derrick Jensen
- Jul 16, Derrick Jensen and Chris Hedges on totalitarianism and resistance
