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| Derrick Jensen has penned a persuasive piece, you can read it here (and possibly explore further):
http://occupiedmedia.us/2012/02/a-new-declaration/
It's well worth a read, may I suggest you do that now before reading my comments.
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Jensen comes from a strong ecological perspective, I'm more pragmatic, less evangelical. However, I find his primary thesis (not overtly stated in the above link but clear in his books) problematically correct. Put simply it is: our present system is unsustainable and destroying our planet for our own and many other species; it is inevitably doomed (unsustainable) yet while it continues to survive it destroys our capacity as a species to survive long term and permanently destroys many other species; therefore we have a moral and self-interested (as species) duty to hasten its end.
Maybe re-read the Jensen piece again in this awareness and try to find fault in the logic. Maybe there is none.
Perhaps the only reasons I am not an active system-terrorist are: I'm pretty sure this system destroys itself very soon anyway; seeing what I do I am unwilling to accept any responsibility for causing he inevitable immense pain (coward). Yet I know the delay adds to the hurt that will be suffered by humans, other species, the planet, the chance of civilisation here in future.
In Jensen's, and my, judgement, humans have been a plague on this planet for a few hundred years now (some argue for 10,000 years but I disagree on that) and we are still too collectively stupid to realise we have to change our ways or die. | |
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A declaration of human in[ter]dependence?