Deep green resistance strategy to save the planet part 1. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading deep green resistance. As our current climate crises increase in severity, discussions on solutions have found themselves at the forefront of mainstream media. Lawyer for environmental group interrogated repeatedly. Deep green resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful. Deep green resistancesanta barbara deep green resistance dgr is an analysis, a strategy, and the only organization of its kind. Our position on these technologies is that they represent a false hope for a couple of reasons. Dgr book archives womens caucus deep green resistance. Each day means more sustainable culturesdestroyed, deep green resistance.
Deep green resistance also discusses a culture of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play. Deep green resistance chicago chicago chapter of deep. In this episode of the green flame, we speak with will falk. For many, solar, wind, and other nonfossil energy sources and technologies represent a pragmatic hope for saving the biosphere. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Deep green resistance is an analysis, a strategy, and the only organization of its kind.
Find out more about why deep green resistances strategy is necessary and why you may want to help build a community of radical resistance. Deep green resistance preface by derrick jensen dgr book. Technology cant fix it, and shoppingno matter how green wont stop it. Oh also i recall dgr embracing some seriously rightist and authoritarian values. Deep green resistance strategy to save the planet part 3 of 7. Deep green resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off. There are voices raised in concern, even anguish, at the plight of the earth, the rending of its species. Technology cant fix it, and shoppingno matter how greenwont stop it. Keith is associated with the deep green resistance movement, and together with aric mcbay and derrick jensen, she cowrote deep green resistance. To save the planet, only a serious resistance movement can bring down the industrial economy. We are an environmental and social justice organisation based on the book, deep green resistance. Deep green resistance had the honor recently of conducting a video interview with longtime peace activist and organizer with veterans for peace, doug zachary. Learn the analysis of the dgr environmental movement.
Strategy to save the planet as a browseable website. Only zero emissions can prevent a warmer planet, one pair. Guy mcpherson and deep green resistance new york 2015. Strategy to save the planet jensen, derrick, mcbay, aric, keith, lierre on. There is of course an infinitude of possible futures we could describe. Strategy to save the planet aric mcbay, lierre keith, and derrick jensen. Strategy to save the planet derrick jensen, aric mcbay, lierre keith on. Resistance, organization, strategy and tactics, and the future. As the world burns will inspire you to do whatever it takes to stop ecocide before its too late.
Strategy to save the planet and over 8 million other books are available for amazon kindle. Kop deep green resistance av derrick jensen, aric mcbay, lierre keith pa. We work to stand in solidarity with oppressed communities. Deep green resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planet and win. Deep green resistance derrick jensen, aric mcbay, lierre keith. This essay is an excerpt from the book deep green resistance. Deep green resistance, formed in 2012, is open about its support of underground. I dont just mean their deep ecology and genocidal stance when i say this. Excerpted from chapter 6 of the book deep green resistance. The fourth strategy based on deep green resistance could be called a nonideal theory of change, insofar as the actions dgr engage in are a result of the perceived failure of all other strategies for change coupled with the expectation that those strategies will continue to fail. Wed like to thank the authors and the publisher for preparing this excerpt for. The first rights of nature lawsuit in the us was filed on september 25, 2017, in denver, colorado.
Event direct action training location siletz, or date sunday, february 22nd. Back then, it hadnt occurred to me that a book on environmental strategy was needed. Will is a writer, lawyer, environmental activist and former collaborator of deep green resistance news service. The natural world speaks and wills work is how he listens to nature.
Deep green resistance dgr is a strategy to save the planet, based on an analysis of civilisation that sees it as inherently destructive. Deep green resistance lays out a plan with an actual chance of success, decisive ecological warfare. On saturday august 27 th, activists for ecological defense blocked a northbound bnsf coal train for twelve hours at the chuckanut bay railroad bridge south of bellingham, wash. As a strategy, it offers a concrete plan for how to stop that destruction. Deep green resistance eugene against civilization, for. Aboveground activists must rebuild local, sustainable, democratic communities while underground activists disable the physical infrastructure destroying our planet. Welcome to the website of deep green resistance uk dgruk. Deep green resistance strategy to save the planet part 6. Lawyer for environmental group interrogated repeatedly at us border this article is more than 4 years old. As an analysis, it reveals civilization as the institution that is destroying life on earth. Our allegiance is first and foremost to the land around us. A mustread for anyone seeking effective strategies to address environmental and social crises. Deep green resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be. Deep green resistance is an analysis, a strategy, and a movement being born, the only movement of its kind.
Strategy to save the planet kindle edition by jensen, derrick, mcbay, aric, keith, lierre. Deep green resistance dgr is a radical environmental movement that views mainstream. Deep green resistance strategy to save the planet part 4 of 7 duration. Few topics generate more commentary on our page than critiques of alternative energy. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
A planet on which humans live in equitable and sustainable communities without exploiting the planet or each. Now, when i talk about a resistance, i am talking about an organized political resistance. Winner of numerous awards and honors including the eric hoffer book award, usa todays critics choice, and press actions person of the year, jensen is the author of over fifteen books, including endgame, a language older than words, what we leave behind with aric mcbay, and deep green. Strategy to save the planet excerpt all content below is excerpted from the book deep green resistance.
While that is certainly worthy of critique often people ignore the other ways in which they are awful. I first heard about deep green resistance in the middle of a grassroots fight to stop a huge vacationhome subdivision at a wilderness park on vancouver island. Dgruk is part of a growing movement that sees the need for both a. Derrick jensen is the bestknown voice of the growing deep ecology movement. Three leading and controversial voices evaluate the strategic options from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare. Distinguishing categories of violence deep green resistance. On sunday, february 22nd, deep green resistance eugene will participate and help to teach a direct action training taking place in siletz, oregon. Zachary, an austin resident and now a dgr member himself, describes personal experiences seeing and feeling the tragedy of industrial civilizations destruction of habitat and life. Aric mcbay, lierre keith, derrick jensen deep green resistance. Environmental activists circumvent democracy to impose agenda. If youre interested in joining our collective, participating in our organizing work, or supporting in any other ways, get in touch. As an analysis, it reveals the last 10,000 years of human historythe rise and dominance of civilizationas the culture of death that is. The book identifies civilisation, patriarchy, and capitalism as brutal arrangements of power which need to be dismantled if there is to be any. Human supremacy archives deep green resistance texas.
Strategy to save the planet offer perhaps the most well thought out vision of what a movement dedicated to liberating the planet from this prison might look like, and we are deeply grateful for his work. Deep green resistance strategy to save the planet part 5. The deep green alternative debating strategies of transition. Strategy to save the planet seven stories press, 2011. Death of a planet deepest water found km down a third of way to earths core deep fracture fluids isolated in the crust since the precambrian era deep green resistance strategy to save the planet.
We sincerely hope that more people will allow the analysis. Deep green resistance uk dgr uk is the uk chapter of dgr international. Deep green resistance is a radical environmental movement, dedicated to shifting activists towards strategies that have a real chance to stop the murder of the planet. The term managerialism has been widely used but theoretical publications on managerialism remain rare while theory development continues to be insufficient. If you are interested in attending, please contact us for more information. Decisive ecological warfare deep green resistance new york. River itself, with the organization deep green resistance a national organization committed to protecting the planet through direction action filing as a next friend on behalf of. Im not just talking about something that comes and something that goes. Strategy to save the planet jensen, derrick, mcbay, aric, keith, lierre isbn. Thought to exist in the wild and other essays, is now available members of the derrick jensen reading club get a 10% discount on orders whether ordering online or by snail mail, include a note saying to whom i should sign the books.
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