Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet [B1273]

2011 PB in excellent condition. 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?" No one ever says yes. Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can't fix it, and shopping-no matter how green-won't stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Deep Green Resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful. It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruitment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and underground action. Deep Green Resistance also discusses a culture of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play. Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planet-and win.

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Very important content for above and below ground movement building that applies to many more contexts than just the environmental movement. In particular, anti-fascist mobilization occurring across the world could benefit from strategies and tactics outlined in DGR."; "This book is clearly for "Deep" strategies of resistance; less "radical" environmentalists/conservationists, vegans, and others sympathetic to the goals of these writers may be offended by some passages, while others may simply raise a fist in agreement."; "So much to disagree with but still offers opportunities to reflect on activism, grassroots movement and what causes change."; "What DGR calls for as a coordinated strategy will likely happen instead as a rising crescendo of uncoordinated actions motivated by desperation as ecocide approaches, becoming part of the apocalyptic scenario along with ever fiercer storms, inundated coastlines and cities, wars and militias, huge streams of refugees, epidemics as the health system breaks down, and of course the spiking rate of extinctions. Hopefully the inevitable system collapse happens in such a way as to leave a substantial chunk of biodiversity and ecosystems alive, if not intact. At that point, with the massive industrial infrastructure inoperative, recovery of life on the planet may be possible. Will any humans survive? Will the remnants be chastened sufficiently not to do the same thing all over again? Impossible to know."