Is the World a Better Place Because You Were Born?

May 25th, 2018

By Derrick Jensen B.Sc / Deep Green Resistance

I was asked to speak about the state of the planet, and to do it in under five minutes. I can do it in three.

The world is being murdered, flayed alive, poisoned, gutted, dismembered. Every biological indicator is going the wrong direction. And it’s getting worse by the day.

Two hundred species were driven extinct today, and they were my brothers and sisters. Two hundred will go extinct tomorrow. And the day after.

There are stolid scientists who are saying the oceans could be devoid of fish in less than 35 years. Imagine that: the murder of the oceans on this water planet.

The problems are not new. This culture has been killing the planet for 6,000 to 10,000 years. When we think of Iraq, is the first thing we think of cedar forests so thick the sunlight never reached the ground? That’s how it was, prior to this culture. The first written myth of this culture is Gilgamesh deforesting the hills and valleys of Iraq to make a great city. The Arabian peninsula was heavily forested. The forests of North Africa were cut to make the Egyptian and Phoenician navies. Greece was heavily forested.

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Also by Derrick Jensen:

• When I Dream of a Planet in Recovery…
• We Must Reclaim True Environmentalism!
• Why “Sustainable Development” is a Lie
• Forget Shorter Showers – Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Social Change
• The Man Box and the Cult of Masculinity
• The Eco-Modernist Manifesto: a Program of Genocide and Ecocide

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