Derrick Jensen's most ambitious, important, and best book to date.
Publishers WeeklyThe author, who in earlier books like The Culture of Make Believe discussed his experience of violence and abuse as a child, calls now for determined and even violent resistance to environmental degradation. Jensen comes across in volume I as a provocative but personable philosopher-activist who in lyrical and witty writing bemoans species extinction, sullied air quality, shrinking icecaps, expanding deserts and vanishing forests wrought by humans. But Jensen believes this culture will not undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living. Civilization, he says in volume II, is killing the planet, so [c]ivilization needs to be brought down now. Jensen dwells through several chapters on the need to destroy tens of thousands of river dams, whether with pickax-wielding citizen armies or through the use of well-placed explosive charges; other chapters consider how simple it would be to paralyze the American capitalist system if small activist cells were to disrupt railway, highway, pipeline and other elements of commercial infrastructure. Jensen clearly feels a close connection to nature, writes movingly about the hoped-for return of the salmon, the trees, the grizzly bears. But he has become so disgusted with what he calls civilization that he has more compassion for the salmon than for his fellow humans. (June) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Categories:
- Self-Help
- Spiritual
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Author : Jensen, Derrick
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2006-06-06
Number Of Pages : 512
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 158322730X
ISBN-13 : 9781583227305
Item weight : 1.45 lb
Dimensions : 1.4 in x 5.9 in x 8.8 in
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