Yes, to the excellent basic points and great photos of omnicide in your post, but no, "Bright Green Lies" is the product of an authoritarian cult, and they have nothing but urging jail terms on monkey-wrenchers to show for their bogus fake-revolution stances.
if you mean the book "Bright Green Lies" - I think it could've been better organized and could've focused more on material resource extraction than on "clean" energy's engineering failures and the dangers it poses to wildlife after installation (weaker arguments). Granted, three people contributed to it, none are authors by profession, and they all probably had other things to get to
is Deep Green Resistance the "cult" you're referring to? I don't know enough about Derrick Jensen or Lierre Kieth, but Max Wilbert has cut ties with and I enjoy his blog, believe he's taking his efforts in a good direction
Yes, DGR and Jensen are what I am referring to. The corporate-government alliance that produced the Green Scare of a decade or so ago of hideous punitive long prison terms meted out to even non- violent environmental resistors makes any talk of fantasy monkeywrenching dangerously naive.
The UK’s new Green Scare of five year prison terms to folks on a zoom call should be equally compelling evidence of how heedless of draconian consequences this kind of talk incitement is and will be.
Jensen and Kieth are big names in this admittedly microscopic arena, but they are sad tales. It’s good to hear that Wilbert has cut ties with them, and it is entirely to your credit to seek out sources without endorsing all of their history or associations.
Ozzie Zehner’s book “Green Illusions” did much more focused and challenging work in this cautionary field.
Yes, to the excellent basic points and great photos of omnicide in your post, but no, "Bright Green Lies" is the product of an authoritarian cult, and they have nothing but urging jail terms on monkey-wrenchers to show for their bogus fake-revolution stances.
if you mean the book "Bright Green Lies" - I think it could've been better organized and could've focused more on material resource extraction than on "clean" energy's engineering failures and the dangers it poses to wildlife after installation (weaker arguments). Granted, three people contributed to it, none are authors by profession, and they all probably had other things to get to
is Deep Green Resistance the "cult" you're referring to? I don't know enough about Derrick Jensen or Lierre Kieth, but Max Wilbert has cut ties with and I enjoy his blog, believe he's taking his efforts in a good direction
Yes, DGR and Jensen are what I am referring to. The corporate-government alliance that produced the Green Scare of a decade or so ago of hideous punitive long prison terms meted out to even non- violent environmental resistors makes any talk of fantasy monkeywrenching dangerously naive.
The UK’s new Green Scare of five year prison terms to folks on a zoom call should be equally compelling evidence of how heedless of draconian consequences this kind of talk incitement is and will be.
Jensen and Kieth are big names in this admittedly microscopic arena, but they are sad tales. It’s good to hear that Wilbert has cut ties with them, and it is entirely to your credit to seek out sources without endorsing all of their history or associations.
Ozzie Zehner’s book “Green Illusions” did much more focused and challenging work in this cautionary field.
Good points. Later in this substack, I express support for minor acts that block development, but I'll give it some thought and might shift my stance!