"If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home." Derrick Jensen
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As the Amazon Burns, It’s Time to Roll Up Our Sleeves
September 5th, 2019The Amazon is burning. This is what the end of the world looks like. Oh, and there’ll be more forests burned, more forests felled by chainsaws, more wetlands drained, more rivers dammed, more grasslands plowed, oceans further toxified and emptied of fish. And each of these is what the end of the world looks like. […]
Read More... Filed in EssaysLetter to a Publisher: On the Destruction of Discourse and the Cult of the Postmodern Left
August 8th, 2019This letter was sent to a publisher with whom we signed a contract for our book Bright Green Lies. After the contract was signed by all parties the publisher unilaterally voided on the contract. The publisher voided the contract because we refuse to deny physical reality, that is, we refuse to say that male human […]
Read More... Filed in EssaysIs the World a Better Place Because You Were Born?
April 1st, 2017I was asked to speak about the state of the planet, and to do it in under five minutes. I can do it in three. The world is being murdered, flayed alive, poisoned, gutted, dismembered. Every biological indicator is going the wrong direction. And it’s getting worse by the day. Two hundred species were driven […]
Read More... Filed in EssaysOn Donald Trump and How We Got Here
December 20th, 2016One Does Not Hate When One Can Despise When I find myself in times of trouble, I’m less interested in Mother Mary’s wisdom than I am in Joe Hill’s: Don’t mourn; organize. There’s a sense in which Trump’s election is a surprise, similar to how we somehow seem to be continually surprised when easily predictable […]
Read More... Filed in EssaysThe Myths of Renewable Energy
December 12th, 2016This culture will not act to stop or significantly slow global warming. This culture will sacrifice—read kill—the planet rather than question the socioeconomic system that is killing our only home. How do we know that? Well, here are a few good reasons. Let’s start with Donald Trump. No, even though the president-elect of the United […]
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