WATCH: Derrick Jensen Talks Sustainability: Any Way of Life That Uses Resources Will Fail

Posted on Friday, January 23rd, 2009 at 7:46 am by dpacheco

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You may not know this—I did not know this—but Derrick Jensen, author of Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture, and Eros and A Language Older Than Words, among other titles, is a very funny man.

Who else could turn the Star Wars movies into a wry cautionary tale on the failures of the environmentalist movement? Not many, that’s who.

The first version of the movie Star Wars was written by environmentalists… For one thing, it’s not called “Star Wars,” because that’s so violent. Instead it was called “Star Non-violent Civil Disobedience.

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3 Responses to “WATCH: Derrick Jensen Talks Sustainability: Any Way of Life That Uses Resources Will Fail”

  1. Brianne Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 12:14 pm

    thanks for posting, dennis. yeah, he’s great. i saw him once about a year ago and he was really funny. plus, i’m pretty sure he was wearing that same sweater, which is awesome.

  2. Chelsea Green » Blog Archive » Alternatives to Electric Compressor Refrigeration? Says:
    January 26th, 2009 at 6:47 am

    […] it, for example. But why not replace your fridge with something entirely renewable? I mean, as Derrick Jensen points out in this video, no civilization that consumes resources is […]

  3. dpacheco Says:
    January 26th, 2009 at 9:34 am

    Brianne, maybe you were at this show?

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