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...
by DGR News Service | Jan 11, 2022 | Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction
Editor’s note: one of the worst environmental disasters that nearly no-one has heard of is “habitat fragmentation.” Many ecologists believe that habitat fragmentation is the single most serious threat to biological diversity and is the primary cause...
by DGR News Service | Jan 10, 2022 | Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Mining & Drilling
Editor’s note: Already threatened by overfishing, acidification, overheating, the collapse of coral reefs, declining plankton populations, plastic pollution, and deep sea oil drilling, the world’s oceans now face a new threat: mining, disguised as...
by DGR News Service | Dec 28, 2021 | Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Indirect Action, Lobbying, The Problem: Civilization
This story first appeared in Center for Biological Diversity. SAN DIEGO, Calif.— After nearly 30 years of petitions and lawsuits by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected one of Southern California’s rarest butterflies,...
