"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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You Can’t Kill a Planet and Live on It, Too
July 16th, 2011Interview by Frank Joseph Smecker With an entire planet being slaughtered before our eyes, it's terrifying to watch the very culture responsible for this – the culture of industrial civilization, fueled by a finite source of fossil fuels, primarily a dwindling supply of oil – thrust forward wantonly to fuel its insatiable appetite for "growth." […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenInterview by Autonomous Music
May 16th, 2011Interview by Chris Richards Can you give us a brief description and explanation of whom you are and what it is you do? I am Derrick Jensen and I am a writer and activist, and I am most well known, at this point, for writing A Language Older Than Words, The Culture of Make Believe […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenResurrecting a Literature of Revolution
February 14th, 2011Interview by Cara Hoffman Derrick Jensen has produced some of the most culturally significant writing about the environment (and about the psychological environment we live in as a result of the dominant philosophy of corporations) of the past decade. His work is filled with a love and rage and hope that few of us could […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenWe need to stop this culture before it kills the planet
January 23rd, 2011Interview by Mickey Z for Press Action As you begin reading this interview, take a look at the nearest clock. Now, dig this: Since yesterday at the same exact time, 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed, over 100 plant and animal species have gone extinct, 13 million tons of toxic chemicals were released across […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenThe End of Civilization
January 5th, 2011A discussion with radical writer and environmentalist Derrick Jensen Interview by Andrea Hiott, originally published in Pulse Berlin In the recent documentary A Crude Awakening, it is said that the United States of America was once “the Saudi Arabia of the world” when it came to oil production: in other words, much of the world […]
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