The modern environmental movement is all about saving the industrial economy

I have not paid so much attention to Derrick Jensen in the last 2 years for my own, personal reasons but I am posting this because he expresses a key point so clearly

Derrick Jensen: We need to get back to the traditional environmental movement

That was about saving the Living Planet around us; the modern movement is around saving industrial civilisation

Derrick Jensen interviews Alice Friedemann

Derrick Jensen Resistance Radio w/ Alice Friedemann - August 6, 2017

Derrick Jensen

Alice Friedemann is the author of When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation. She is also the author of articles such as “The Hydrogen Economy: Savior of Humanity or an Economic Black Hole,” and “Peak Soil: Why Biofuels Destroy Ecosystems and Civilizations.” Her website is energyskeptic.com

Derrick Jensen's reflections on the human predicament as we destroy the Living Planet

This monologue by Derrick Jensen is one of the most important reflections I have heard recently.

In it he talks about how as societies move towards collapse tend to do more and more of the things that made the civilisation successful and which are destroying us.

Humans are incapable to acknowledge the truth of things-as-they-are so resort to magical thinking - “so long as I have a Prius, change my lightbulbs....things will be alright.

Statements by otherwise intelligent scientists (but who have a huge investment in business-as-usual are particularly prone to this thinking.

Derrick Jensen on magical thinking

Humanity to keep tweeting positive slogans until point of extinction

TheDaily Mash,
22 May, 2016



HUMANS will continue posting upbeat sayings on social media until the very last person dies, it has emerged.



Following claims that humanity will soon be killed off by climate change, experts said that the hollow life-affirming statements would continue until zero hour.



Professor Henry Brubaker of the Institute for Studies said: “As famine, drought and overcrowding take their toll and civilisation spirals inexorably towards chaos, we’ll still see tweets like ‘Negative people have a problem for every solution’ and ‘Every single second is an inspiration’.



“When people turn into desperate cannibals and sell themselves sexually for a few slivers of rat meat, you’ll still get people on Facebook saying ‘You can’t live a positive life with a negative mind’.




“And thanks to internet scheduling software, hours after the last human keels over in a desert wasteland