Purchase book here and all proceeds go to support the deep green resistance movement. The goal of dgr is to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. The brave, smart, militant, and, most of all, serious, and together take aim. Deep green resistance dgr is a strategy to save the planet, based on an analysis of civilisation that sees it as inherently destructive. Within the deep green theory, lifestyle or personal changes are not considered effective methods of creating meaningful change. A planet on which humans live in equitable and sustainable communities without exploiting the planet or each. Deep green resistance dgr is a radical environmental movement that views mainstream environmental activism as being largely ineffective. Deep green resistance dgr is an environmental and social justice organization based on the book, deep green resistance. I first heard about deep green resistance in the middle of a grassroots fight to stop a huge vacationhome subdivision at a wilderness park on vancouver island. Reading group for deep green resistance forming in seattle. Deep green resistance strategy to save the planet part 1.
Deep green resistance one spinoff from the green new deal. Deep green resistance strategy to save the planet part 3 of 7 duration. Technology cant fix it, and shoppingno matter how greenwont stop it. Derrick jensen is the bestknown voice of the growing deep ecology movement. As an analysis, it reveals civilization as the institution that is destroying life on earth. Dgr is also used by group members to refer to their particular political strategies. Strategy to save the planet, published in may 2011. Full spectrum resistance, volume 2 seven stories press. Aboveground activists must rebuild local, sustainable, democratic communities while underground activists disable the physical infrastructure destroying our planet. This is the third derrick jensen book ive decided to inflict on myself, but probably not the last. Strategy to save the planet the deep green resistance book was published almost 10 years ago. Strategy to save the planet aric mcbay, lierre keith, and derrick jensen. Strategy to save the planet a black tern weighs barely two ounces. Excerpted from chapter 6 of the book deep green resistance.
But it has predicted most of whats happened in that time. The key problem with identifying successful strategies is that the context of historical resistance is different from the present. For those grappling with the tough questions of how to win battles for social and environmental justice, its necessary reading that explores strategy, tactics, movement history, and what might be effective for our movement to win. Now, when i talk about a resistance, i am talking about an organized political resistance. Dgruk is part of a growing movement that sees the need for both a robust and visible culture of resistance and an active underground that together restrict the ability of civilisation to further damage our. Deep green resistance strategy to save the planet part 2 of 7 duration. The group believes that industrial civilization, as they define it, is endangering all life on the planet and that a. Back then, it hadnt occurred to me that a book on environmental strategy was needed. Strategy to save the planet seven stories press, 2011. So think resistance with all your aching heart, a word that must become our promise to what is left of this planet. Wed like to thank the authors and the publisher for preparing this excerpt for. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down. May 25, 2017 deep green resistance is a movement working to save the planet. Aug 14, 2019 the following is from the chapter introduction to strategy of the book deep green resistance.
Deep green resistance dgr is a radical environmental movement that views mainstream. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Deep green resistance is an analysis, a strategy, and the only organization of its kind. As a strategy, it offers a concrete plan for how to stop that destruction. Strategy deep green resistance southwest coalition.
Deep green resistance by derrick jensen, aric mcbay, lierre keith. There is of course an infinitude of possible futures we could describe. Keith is associated with the deep green resistance movement, and together with aric mcbay and derrick jensen, she cowrote deep green resistance. For years, derrick jensen has asked his audiences, do you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life. May 03, 2011 deep green resistance paperback strategy to save the planet. This essay is an excerpt from the book deep green resistance. Deep green resistance dgr is a radical environmental movement that views mainstream environmental activism as being ineffective. Strategy to save the planet jensen, derrick, mcbay, aric, keith, lierre isbn. Winner of numerous awards and honors including the eric hoffer book award, usa todays critics choice, and press actions person of the year, jensen is the author of over fifteen books, including endgame, a language older than words, what we leave behind with aric mcbay, and deep green. The dgr organization is largely based on the book deep green resistance, which was.
Videos related to radical feminism, many presented by deep green resistance members. Im not just talking about something that comes and something that goes. Apr 11, 2020 introduction to the book deep green resistance. Deep green resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planet and win. Deep green resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be. Dec 04, 2019 deep green resistance is a movement working to save the planet. Aug 04, 2015 have you read, or wanted to read, deep green resistance. May 21, 2019 deep green resistance is an analysis, a strategy, and the only organization of its kind. Strategy decisive ecological warfare strategy goals the ultimate goal of the primary resistance movement in this scenario is simply a living planet a planet not just living, but in recovery, growing more alive and more diverse year after year. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring. Deep green resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off.
Deep green resistance evaluates strategic options for. If deep green resistance does not inspire its reader to political action, then nothing will. The group believes that industrial civilization, as they define it, is endangering the environment, and that must be destroyed. For years, derrick jensen has asked his audiences, do you th. Deep green resistance aims to motivate the formation of an underground army to carry out something they call decisive ecological warfare. Deep green resistance how not to build a movement green. The dgr movement started in 2011 with the release of the book deep green resistance. Deep green resistance supports an active resistance movement with the objective of accelerating the collapse of industrial civilization. Currently, we are reading the book deep green resistance. How this activity will stop the release of carbon and the felling how this activity will stop the release of carbon and the felling of forests is never actually explained. The strategy of deep green resistance dgr starts by acknowledging the dire circumstances that industrial civilization has created for life on this planet. With the scale of ecological and social crises that are facing the planet, we evaluate all strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare. The book identifies civilization, patriarchy, and capitalism as a few of the brutal arrangements of power that need to be dismantled for the earth to survive.