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How the West Has Won
Peak Moment 200: “Is the world a better place because you were born?” asks author Derrick Jensen. He contrasts sustainable indigenous cultures, who enrich their habitat, with the current “dominant culture destroying everything.” He explores how industrial civilization is inherently violent, turning people into objects and the earth into stuff. His books include A Language Older Than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, and Endgame. [http://www.derrickjensen.org]
2 Comments on "How the West Has Won"
sunweb on Sun, 4th Sep 2011 12:54 pm
How did these sustainable indigenous cultures maintain population? Infanticide? Girl babies? Which ones didn’t war with their neighbors for resources including wives? This noble savage stuff is for the most part illusion and to promote it is hypocritical.
Does Mr. Jensen walk the walk? or should he just say:
I am polluting our ground water by using the natural gas from fracking. I am creating havoc in the oceans by spilling life-killing oil. I am also plasticizing the oceans. I am also limiting or eliminating species after species in the ocean, on the land, in the air. I am putting my medicines into the rivers and the water supply. I am greedily creating food sources that only I control. I am removing the topsoil. I am gouging huge holes in the earth. I am burning coal and creating nuclear waste for thousands of years to come for my flat screen television, my computer and my DVD player. I am putting mercury and acids into the air, water and life. I am melting the ice caps and the glaciers. I am heating the planet to drive my snowmobile, my wave runner, and my four-wheeler and to drive to any damn place I want. I am using many people to cater to my many whims.
From:http://sunweber.blogspot.com/2011/05/just-say-i.html
zoli on Mon, 5th Sep 2011 12:00 pm
Oh boy!!!! Aother mea culpa leftist, self loathing load of cow kaka, wich is something we need more of to fertilize the soil. I am yet to see one of these guys suggest a viable solution to our problems, aside maybe from “hey why don’t we westerners all stop reproducing, so the world can be a better place” Do they seriously believe that it would be a better place? They need to take a closer look.