Much-needed Klein Critique: I’m with Klein’s analysis all the way, until the last half-dozen pages. “There is just enough time,” she writes, and we have more than enough green technology and green plans... My reading of the previous 400-plus pages, and everything I know from my own study of the issues, tells me that there is NOT enough time to build the world that will keep us all safe, and that we have to start preparing to settle for something less. This isn’t a nihilistic argument for giving in or giving up, but rather a good-faith assessment of what has already been lost and the limits of what might be saved. The death spiral set in motion by fossil-fueled capitalism can’t magically be reversed, and the extractivist mindset is deeply set in not only the 1% but in most of the population of the developed world. The author of this article, Robert Jensen, is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center in Austin. His latest book is We Are All Apocalyptic Now: On the Responsibilities of Teaching, Preaching, Reporting, Writing, and Speaking Out. Jensen is also co-producer of the documentary film Abe Osheroff: One Foot in the Grave, the Other Still Dancing (Media Education Foundation, 2009), which chronicles the life and philosophy of the longtime radical activist. Deep Green Resistance has a strategy for the environmental movement to change the global conversation and dismantle the Extractivist industrial economy. This strategy is called Decisive Ecological Warfare. For more about strategic resistance: deepgreenresistance.org/deep-green-resistance-strategy/strategic-resistance
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 08:36:38 +0000
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