{"id":868,"date":"2011-09-02T13:39:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T12:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=868"},"modified":"2011-09-02T13:39:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T12:39:53","slug":"resisting-the-deep-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/09\/02\/resisting-the-deep-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Resisting the Deep Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deep Green Resistance<\/em> (an equally deep ambiguity there) is a book by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith & Aric McBay. \u00a0Derrick is [the] leading voice of uncompromising dissent, Lierre is a radical feminist activist from California who has been arrested six times, and Aric has off\u2013the\u2013grid skills he wants to share.\u00a0 I have been reading an essay-excerpt from the book on ClimateStoryTellers.org<\/a>.\u00a0 Somehow I do not think that I\u2019m going to migrate to the real thing, but if you\u2019re made of stronger stuff, you can buy it at Amazon<\/a> at a modestly discounted price.\u00a0 An oddity of this search was that it also brought up the chance to buy Hammerite<\/a> Dark Green paint \u2013 which is almost as expensive as the book, but promises to last longer. \u00a0Actually, I thought the idea of a hammer was quite apt (smart work Amazon), as I feel battered and bruised from just reading the essay \u2013 and my towel has already been thrown in, and can only hope that a beer will revive me.<\/p>\n

Let me give you a taste (though sadly, not of the beer):<\/p>\n

We are living in a period of mass extinction. \u00a0What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? \u00a0The numbers stand at 120 species a day.\u00a0 That\u2019s 50,000 a year. \u00a0This culture is oblivious to their passing, entitled to their every last niche, and there is no roll call on the nightly news.\u00a0 We already have a name for the tsunami wave of extermination: the Holocene extinction event. \u00a0There\u2019s no asteroid this time, only human behavior, behavior that we could choose to stop. \u00a0Adolph Eichman\u2019s (sic) excuse was that no one told him that the concentration camps were wrong. \u00a0We\u2019ve all seen the pictures of the drowning polar bears. \u00a0Are we so ethically numb that we need to be told this is wrong? ...<\/p>\n

By definition, nonrenewable means it will eventually run out. \u00a0Once you\u2019ve grasped that intellectual complexity, you can move on to the next level. \u201cAny culture based on the nonrenewable use of renewable resources is just as unsustainable.\u201d \u00a0Trees are renewable. \u00a0But if we use them faster than they can grow, the forest will turn to desert. \u00a0Which is precisely what civilization has been doing for its 10,000 year campaign, running through soil, rivers, and forests as well as metal, coal, and oil. \u00a0The oceans are almost dead, 90 percent of the large fish devoured, and the plankton populations are collapsing, populations which both feed the life of the oceans and create oxygen for the planet. \u00a0What will we fill our lungs with when they are gone? \u00a0The plastics with which that industrial civilization is replacing them? \u00a0Because in parts of the Pacific, plastic outweighs plankton 48 to 1.7.\u00a0 Imagine your blood, your heart, crammed with toxic materials \u2014 not just chemicals but physical gunk \u2014 until there was ten times more of it than you. \u00a0What metaphor would be adequate to the dying oceans? \u00a0Cancer? \u00a0Suffocation? \u00a0Crucifixion?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wham bam thank you sirs and madam. \u00a0Too heavy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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