Bright Green Lies
Title | Bright Green Lies PDF eBook |
Author | Derrick Jensen |
Publisher | Monkfish Book Publishing |
Pages | 419 |
Release | 2021-03-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1948626403 |
“This disturbing but very important book makes clear we must dig deeper than the normal solutions we are offered.”—Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia Works "Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but instead indulge in a mendacious and self-serving delusion that provides comfort at the expense of reality. They fail to state the obvious: We cannot continue to wallow in hedonistic consumption and industrial expansion and survive as a species. The environmental debate, Derrick Jensen and his coauthors argue, has been distorted by hubris and the childish desire by those in industrialized nations to sustain the unsustainable. All debates about environmental policy need to begin with honoring and protecting, not the desires of the human species, but with the sanctity of the Earth itself. We refuse to ask the right questions because these questions expose a stark truth—we cannot continue to live as we are living. To do so is suicidal folly. ‘Tell me how you seek, and I will tell you what you are seeking,’ the German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said. This is the power of Bright Green Lies: It asks the questions most refuse to ask, and in that questioning, that seeking, uncovers profound truths we ignore at our peril.”—Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of America: The Farewell Tour
What We Leave Behind
Title | What We Leave Behind PDF eBook |
Author | Derrick Jensen |
Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
Pages | 519 |
Release | 2011-01-04 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1583229892 |
What We Leave Behind is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. Here, award-winning author Derrick Jensen and activist Aric McBay weave historical analysis and devastatingly beautiful prose to remind us that life—human and nonhuman—will not go on unless we do everything we can to facilitate the most basic process on earth, the root of sustainability: one being's waste must always become another being’s food.
Deep Green Resistance
Title | Deep Green Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | Derrick Jensen |
Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
Pages | 606 |
Release | 2011-01-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1609801423 |
For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, "Do you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life?" No one ever says yes. Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can't fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won’t stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Deep Green Resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful. It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruitment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and underground action. Deep Green Resistance also discusses a culture of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play. Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planet—and win.
Walking on Water
Title | Walking on Water PDF eBook |
Author | Derrick Jensen |
Publisher | Chelsea Green Publishing |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1931498784 |
This is a hard-hitting and sometimes scathing critique of the current educational system that not only gives a hands-on method for learning how to write, but also a lesson on how to connect to the core of our creative selves.
Welcome to the Machine
Title | Welcome to the Machine PDF eBook |
Author | Derrick Jensen |
Publisher | Chelsea Green Publishing |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1931498520 |
Jensen and Draffan look at the way machine readable devices that track our identities and purchases have infiltrated our lives and have come to define our culture.
The Culture of Make Believe
Title | The Culture of Make Believe PDF eBook |
Author | Derrick Jensen |
Publisher | Chelsea Green Publishing |
Pages | 722 |
Release | 2004-03-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1603581839 |
Derrick Jensen takes no prisoners in The Culture of Make Believe, his brilliant and eagerly awaited follow-up to his powerful and lyrical A Language Older Than Words. What begins as an exploration of the lines of thought and experience that run between the massive lynchings in early twentieth-century America to today's death squads in South America soon explodes into an examination of the very heart of our civilization. The Culture of Make Believe is a book that is as impeccably researched as it is moving, with conclusions as far-reaching as they are shocking.
As the World Burns
Title | As the World Burns PDF eBook |
Author | Derrick Jensen |
Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2011-01-04 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1583229590 |
Two of America's most talented activists team up to deliver a bold and hilarious satire of modern environmental policy in this fully illustrated graphic novel. The U.S. government gives robot machines from space permission to eat the earth in exchange for bricks of gold. A one-eyed bunny rescues his friends from a corporate animal-testing laboratory. And two little girls figure out the secret to saving the world from both of its enemies (and it isn't by using energy-efficient light bulbs or biodiesel fuel). As the World Burns will inspire you to do whatever it takes to stop ecocide before it’s too late.