"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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Top 10 Ways to Destroy All the Water on Earth
August 24th, 2016Human intervention has been responsible for polluting and emptying water resources at a criminal rate. I love looking at lists of our culture’s greatest achievements. I’m always astounded, for example, to read of the stupendous effort that went into building the Pyramids of Giza: At least 10,000 people worked for 30 years to erect giant […]
Read More... Filed in EssaysWhen I Dream of a Planet in Recovery
March 12th, 2016In the time after, the buffalo come home. At first only a few, shaking snow off their shoulders as they pass from mountain to plain. Big bulls sweep away snowpack from the soft grass beneath; big cows attend to and protect their young. The young themselves delight, like the young everywhere, in the newness of […]
Read More... Filed in EssaysSustainable Development is a Lie
November 19th, 2015“Sustainable development” is a claim to virtue. The word “development” used in this sense is a lie. The word “develop” means “to grow,” “to progress,” “to become fuller, more advanced.” Some synonyms are “evolution, unfolding, maturation, ripeness,” and some antonyms are “deterioration, disintegration.” And here is a real usage example from a dictionary: “Drama reached […]
Read More... Filed in EssaysThe Ecomodernist Manifesto is a program for genocide and ecocide
November 10th, 2015Robert Jay Lifton noted that before you can commit any mass atrocity, you must convince yourself and others that what you’re doing is not atrocious, but rather beneficial. You must have what he called a “claim to virtue”. Thus the Nazis weren’t, from their perspective, committing mass murder and genocide, but were ‘purifying the Aryan […]
Read More... Filed in EssaysResponse to Oregon State University
August 18th, 2015This letter was originally published at Gender Detective, with the following introduction: A few months ago I was deplatformed from speaking at Oregon State University. The professors who deplatformed me said that it was because my speaking at the University could “hurt the feelings” of the students who identify as transgender. This is because I […]
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