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Jensen, Derrick, 1960-
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Jensen, Derrick, 1960-
Environmentalism.
Environmentalism -- History.
Environmentalists.
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Bright green lies : how the environmental movement lost its way and what we can do about it / Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith,
Max
Wilbert
.
by
Jensen, Derrick, 1960-
Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2021.
Call #:
304.28 J546b
Subjects
Environmentalism.
Environmentalism -- History.
Environmentalists.
ISBN:
9781948626392 (pbk.)
Description:
xxii, 478 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Prologue / by Lierre Keith -- The Spectrum of Environmentalism -- The problem -- Solving for the wrong variable -- The solar lie : part 1 -- The solar lie : part 2 -- The wind lie -- The lie of green energy storage -- Efficiency -- Recycling -- The green city lie -- The green grid lie -- The hydropower lie -- Other lies -- More solutions that won't work -- Real solutions -- Afterword / by Derrick Jensen.
Summary:
"Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but instead indulge in a mendacious and self-serving delusion that provides comfort at the expense of reality. They fail to state the obvious: We cannot continue to wallow in hedonistic consumption and industrial expansion and survive as a species. The environmental debate, Derrick Jensen and his coauthors argue, has been distorted by hubris and the childish desire by those in industrialized nations to sustain the unsustainable. All debates about environmental policy need to begin with honoring and protecting, not the desires of the human species, but with the sanctity of the Earth itself. We refuse to ask the right questions because these questions expose a stark truth-we cannot continue to live as we are living. To do so is suicidal folly. 'Tell me how you seek, and I will tell you what you are seeking,' the German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said. This is the power of Bright Green Lies: It asks the questions most refuse to ask, and in that questioning, that seeking, uncovers profound truths we ignore at our peril."-Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of America: The Farewell Tour"--from publisher.
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Keith, Lierre.
Wilbert
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