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The planet is under serious threat from industrial civilisation, yet until now environmentalists have not considered strategies that might actually prevent the looming biotic collapse the Earth is facing. Earth at Risk is a vital and timely discussion of the world's environmental issues, featuring thinkers and activists who are willing to ask the hardest questions about the seriousness of the current global crisis. Each contributor in the volume presents an impassioned critique of the dominant culture and aims to change the way people think about saving our planet.

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Environment

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Publié par	PM Press
Date de parution	01 février 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781604868210
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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EARTH AT RISK Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet

EARTH AT RISK

Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet

Edited by Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith

ISBN: 978-1-60486-674-2 LCCN: 2012913623

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Contents

Derrick Jensen

William Catton Jr.

Jane Caputi

Riki Ott

Nora Barrows-Friedman

Gail Dines

Thomas Linzey

Waziyatawin

Lierre Keith

Stephanie McMillan

Aric McBay

Arundhati Roy

Q&A with Arundhati Roy and Derrick Jensen

About the Participants

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Introduction by Derrick Jensen This collection of discussions “resistance. It is about putting our is about the shift in strategy and tactics that has to happen if we want to build an effective bodies and our lives between the industrial system and life on the planet. It is about fighting back. ”

The dominant culture is killing the planet. It is long past time that those of us who care about life on earth begin to take the actions necessary to stop civilization from destroying every living being. By now we all know the statistics and trends: 90 percent of the large fish in the oceans are gone, 97 percent of native forests have been destroyed, as have 98 percent of native grasslands. There is ten times as much plastic as phytoplankton in the oceans. Amphibian populations are collapsing, migratory songbird populations are col-lapsing, mollusk populations are collapsing, fish populations are col-lapsing, and so on. Have you noticed that you don’t have to clean your windshield nearly as often as you used to? Even insect popu-lations are collapsing. Two hundred species are driven extinct each and every day. This culture destroys landbases. That’s what itdoes. Iraq used to have cedar forests so thick that sunlight never touched the ground. One of the first written myths of this culture is about Gilgamesh deforesting the hills and valleys of Iraq to build a great city. The Arabian Peninsula used to be oak savannah. The Near East was heavily forested. We’ve all heard of the cedars of Lebanon. Greece was heavily forested. North Africa was heavily forested. This culture destroys landbases, and it won’t stop doing so because we ask nicely. We don’t live in a democracy. Think about it: do governments better serve corporations or living beings? Do judicial systems hold CEOs accountable for their destructive, often murderous acts? Here are a couple of riddles that aren’t very funny. Question: What do you get when you cross a long drug habit, a quick temper,