"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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How the West Has Won
December 21st, 2010Interview by Janaia Donaldson for Peak Moment TV Janaia Donaldson: I really wanted to tape here in your Tolowa country that you speak of. There’s a huge stump, a redwood stump here, throughout these woods, and also second growth. It seems to me a fitting image for what has been and what is, and taking […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenAmy Goodman interviews Derrick Jensen for Democracy Now
November 26th, 2010Edited version of the transcript posted at Democracy Now. You can also view a video of Amy Goodman interviewing Derrick Jensen Amy Goodman: Derrick Jensen lives in northern California. I had an extended conversation with him in San Francisco and began by asking him to explain the title of his latest book, what he means […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenYou’re not crazy and it’s not your fault
November 12th, 2010Derrick Jensen on this destructive culture Interview by Zoe Blunt Deep ecology author Derrick Jensen won fame and notoriety with heavy works of non-fiction like Endgame, which compares western civilization to an abusive family where violence is a constant threat. He argues that we must bring down this culture by any means necessary. Since then, […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenAgainst Prometheus
October 28th, 2009Interview by Frank Joseph Smecker, originally published at CounterPunch Frank Joseph Smecker: You write that this culture is murdering the planet – species extinction, entire continents of clear-cuts, the removal of 90 percent of the large fish from the oceans, global warming – all are but a handful of the dire effects of industrial civilization; […]
Read More... Filed in Interviews of Derrick JensenA Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction
October 18th, 2009Interview by Chris Hedges, originally published at Truthdig We can join Bill McKibben on Oct. 24 in nationwide protests over rising carbon emissions. We can cut our consumption of fossil fuels. We can use less water. We can banish plastic bags. We can install compact fluorescent light bulbs. We can compost in our backyard. But […]
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