by DGR News Service | Aug 1, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change
Editor’s note: Oil has been called the “master resource” of industrial civilization, because it facilitates almost every other economic activity and subsidizes almost every other form of extraction. Chainsaws, for example, run on gasoline; tractors...
by DGR News Service | Jul 25, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction
By Max Wilbert Yesterday I met this juvenile red-shafted Northern Flicker in the high desert of Oregon. Flickers are common, but like all life on Earth, they are in danger. Bird populations around the world are collapsing. Even “common” species like the...
by DGR News Service | Jul 11, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction
Editor’s note: The dominant global culture (“industrial civilization”) is built on resource extraction and forced conversion of habitat to exclusive human use, and this has serious consequences. Both global warming and the ongoing mass extermination...
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...
by DGR News Service | Feb 11, 2022 | Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Indigenous Autonomy, NEWS
Editor’s note: Hydroelectric dams are not green energy, despite many claims that they are. Hydropower kills rivers, displaces millions of human beings, drives anadromous fish and other life dependent on free-flowing rivers extinct, and actually releases...
by DGR News Service | Jan 31, 2022 | Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, NEWS, Obstruction & Occupation
Editor’s note: This piece draws links between struggles against extraction projects and other land destruction related to fossil fuels, nuclear power, and renewable energy technologies alike. Around the world, people are struggling to protect the land and water...
