“In America, four hundred people own the wealth of more than half of the American population. We should not be saying
tax the rich
, but instead we should be saying
take their money and redistribute it, take their property and redistribute it
.”—Arundhati Roy
Industrial civilization is devouring the planet and the future. The oceans are acidifying, whole mountains have been laid to waste, and the climate is teetering into chaos. Every biome is approaching collapse. And fifty years of environmentalism hasn’t even slowed the rate of destruction. Yet environmentalists are not considering strategies that might actually prevent the looming biocide we are facing.
Until Earth at Risk.
Earth at Risk: Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet
is an annual conference featuring environmental thinkers and activists who are willing to ask the hardest questions about the seriousness of our situation. The conference is convened by Derrick Jensen, acclaimed author of
Endgame
, who has argued that we need a resistance movement against civilization itself.
The twelve people in this volume present an impassioned critique of the dominant culture from every angle: William Catton Jr. explains ecological overshoot; Thomas Linzey gives a fiery call for community sovereignty; Jane Caputi exposes patriarchy’s mythic dismemberment of the Goddess; Aric McBay discusses historically effective resistance strategies; and Stephanie McMillan takes down capitalism. One by one, they build an unassailable case that we need to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. These speakers offer their ideas on what can be done to build a real resistance movement, one that includes all levels of direct action—action that can actually match the scale of the problem.
Earth at Risk
includes:
Derrick Jensen, author of
,
A Language Older than Words
, and many others.
Lierre Keith, author of
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
; coauthor of
Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet
.
Nora Barrows-Friedman, journalist and photographer; correspondent for outlets such as The Electronic Intifada, Al Jazeera, and Truthout.org.
Jane Caputi, author of
The Age of Sex Crime
;
Gossips, Gorgons, and Crones: The Fates of the Earth
; and
Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power and Popular Culture
William Catton Jr., sociologist, author of
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
, and
Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse
Gail Dines, a founding member of Stop Porn Culture, author of
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Thomas Linzey, executive director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
Aric Mcbay, coauthor of
Stephanie Mcmillan, cartoonist; author of
The Beginning of the American Fall
; organizer for the anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist collective One Struggle.
Riki Ott, marine biologist, author of
Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Arundhati Roy, author of
An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire
Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
; and many others.
Waziyatawin, historian and anti-colonial activist, author of
For Indigenous Eyes Only
What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland
; and other books.