by DGR News Service | Jul 15, 2022 | ANALYSIS
Editor’s note: This excerpt comes from the book Endgame by Derrick Jensen, a two-volume book consisting of Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization and Volume 2: Resistance. These premises serve as a starting point for Endgame and are explored in detail in the...
by DGR News Service | Jun 17, 2022 | ANALYSIS
Editor’s note: As the climate catastrophe worsens, chaos and contradiction reigns. Grassroots people’s resistance to the fossil fuel industry is growing, but so is government repression, and investment in coal, oil, and gas continues to grow (last year,...
by DGR News Service | Apr 15, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Human Supremacy
Biocentrism (from Greek βίος bios, “life” and κέντρον kentron, “center”) is an ethical point of view that extends inherent value to all living things. It is an understanding of how the earth works, particularly as it relates to its biosphere or...
by DGR News Service | Apr 8, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Defensive Violence
Editor’s note: This excerpt comes from Volume 2 of Derrick Jensen’s 2005 book “Endgame,” a long-form exploration of the destruction of the natural world and the moral questions regarding eco-sabotage in defense of the planet. In this segment of...
by DGR News Service | Feb 18, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Culture of Resistance, Human Supremacy, The Problem: Civilization
The following is an extract from Derrick Jensen’s 2016 book The Myth of Human Supremacy. From the book jacket: “In this impassioned polemic, radical environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen debunks the near-universal belief in a hierarchy of nature and the...
