Posts tagged “environment”
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AlterNet reviews Deep Green Resistance
August 11, 2011
“If you’re firmly in the nonviolence-is-the-answer camp, don’t get scared off (yet), because there is a ton of crucial information in this book. And just because they mention violence doesn’t mean it’s the best policy. You may not want to sign up to lead their underground army, but you should hear them out. Because the planet is being destroyed.” — Tara Lohan at AlterNet
Tags: alternet, aric mcbay, book review, deep green resistance, derrick jensen, environment, lierre keith
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Endgame, Volume 1
June 14, 2011
Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore how this relationship impels us towards a revolutionary and as-yet undiscovered shift in strategy.
Tags: derrick jensen, endgame, environment, nonfiction
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Weekend workshop with Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, and Lierre Keith
May 13, 2011
We live in the most destructive culture to ever exist. In Derrick’s talks around the country he repeatedly asks his audiences, “Does anyone think this culture will voluntarily transform to a sustainable way of living?” No one ever says yes. If we really accept the seriousness of the situation, what would that mean for our strategy and tactics? This is the urgent question we will be exploring over the weekend. Topics will include: “Organizing the Resistance,” “Bringing It Down: Bottlenecks and Levers,” “Building it Up: A Culture of Resistance,” “Liberal vs. Radical: Some Conceptual Basics,” “Organizational Structures Above and Below Ground,” “Security Culture,” and a Q&A with Derrick Jensen.
Tags: aric mcbay, deep green resistance, derrick jensen, ecology, environment, lierre keith, san francisco
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Nader Speaks Out On Mega-Billionaires and Civic Duty
May 12, 2011
“What are the chances of a small number of the mega-rich putting ample resources behind basic changes that benefit people but upset vested interests? Issues such as a living wage, Medicare for all, and cracking down on corporate crime were part of the agenda for the Meliorists featured in my book. The difference between justice and charity is taking on power to benefit people.”
Tags: economics, environment, finance, only the super-rich can save us, ralph nader
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Review of Columbus and Other Cannibals
May 12, 2011
“The culture of Columbus and other Europeans, Forbes says, suffer from wetiko (cannibalism) and insanity. It is cannibalistic to feed off others of the same species, even economically and emotionally, and insane to destroy the very planet one inhabits.” –The Compendium Newsletter
Tags: american indian, book review, columbus and other cannibals, derrick jensen, environment, jack d. forbes, native american movement
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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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Excerpt available from Deep Green Resistance
May 6, 2011
Will you think it—that one word: resistance? Will you notice that they’ve come for our kin of polar bears and black terns, who are right now being herded into the cattle cars of industrial civilization? Will you join the others who are yearning to action? The train can be derailed, the tracks ripped up, the bridge blown down. There is no metaphor here, as any General Officer could tell us. There is a planet being murdered, and there are also targets that, if taken out relentlessly, could stop it. So think “resistance” with all your aching heart, a word that must become our promise to what is left of this planet.
Tags: aric mcbay, deep green resistance, derrick jensen, environment, lierre keith
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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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Life and Productivity: Dahr Jamail on Derrick Jensen
September 7, 2010
From “Life and Productivity,” Dahr Jamail’s long, excellent article about Derrick Jensen and resistance at Truthout:
BP’s oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded in April and, for 36 hours, its flames released immeasurable amounts of toxins into the atmosphere before it sunk into the depths. We now know that the vast majority of the oil that gushed from the well was intentionally submerged by BP via heavy use of dispersants at the wellhead, so most of the oil is floating around in giant undersea plumes, one of which is ten miles long, three miles wide and 300 feet thick. They are like oil bergs - what we see on top of the water is a mere fraction of what lies beneath. This was not an oil leak. This was a volcano of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Jensen, a prolific writer and author of several books, including “A Language Older Than Words” and “Endgame,” summarizes the situation we face like this: “The point is that when a gold mining corporation spreads cyanide all over the mine and this hits our groundwater and wells and destroys ground waters in Montana, they are not called a terrorist, they are called a capitalist.”The same can be said for BP. Exxon. Monsanto. Bayer. Dow. Lockheed Martin. It’s a long list.
Tags: articles, bp, dahr jamail, deep green resistance, deepwater, derrick jensen, endgame, environment, resistance, truthout
“environment” Posts
- Aug 11, AlterNet reviews Deep Green Resistance
- Jun 14, Endgame, Volume 1
- May 13, Weekend workshop with Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, and Lierre Keith
- May 12, Nader Speaks Out On Mega-Billionaires and Civic Duty
- May 12, Review of Columbus and Other Cannibals
- May 12, “To Live or Not To Live”: Derrick Jensen’s recent column in Orion Magazine
- May 6, Excerpt available from Deep Green Resistance
- Mar 11, Derrick Jensen and the “Age of Ooops”
- Jan 28, Derrick Jensen on the economy: “The Tyranny of Entitlement”
- Sep 7, Life and Productivity: Dahr Jamail on Derrick Jensen
