February 2012
17 posts
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“I can lose my legs and go on living I can lose my eyes and go on living...”
– Jack D. Forbes, 1934 — 2011
“We do not die by ourselves.”
(via cuntymint)
kad budu gorjeli gradovi: Now glyphosate found in... →
kadbudugorjeligradovi:
According to an article in German in the Ithaca journal, a German university study has found significant concentrations of glyphosate in the urine samples of city dwellers. The analysis of the urine samples apparently found that all had concentrations of glyphosate at 5 to 20-fold the limit for…
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Canada's tar sands: Muck and brass →
To many critics the broader environmental legacy of the tar sands is reason enough to halt the whole endeavour. To get at the bitumen, the companies bulldoze wetlands to create vast open-pit mines. Inside them, the world’s largest dumptrucks ferry paydirt to nearby separation plants, where the tarry soil is crushed and diluted until bitumen can be skimmed off. This needs lots of water and...
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Derrick Jensen and Arundhati Roy →
yesmladytron:
Post-reading discussion at Berkeley.
“If our actions make it so there is even a one-thousandth of 1 percent chance...”
– Derrick Jensen, “To Live Or Not To Live” (via cuntymint)
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“We have lost touch with the natural order of things… which day of the workweek...”
– Thomas Berry in Endgame Vol. II: Resistance I have often thought this culture cannot be saved. It can’t be. In these moments, I wander, I yearn, that I may at least remember the beauty not yet lost. (via americawakiewakie)
“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– arundhati roy from the guardian (via counterworlds)
Roy doesn’t like the use of violence. Who can blame her? I don’t like it either. But nonviolence only works within a privileged context, however meager and shitty that privilege may be and to the extent it could be used effectively.
(via...
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January 2012
124 posts
jared diamond - collapse--how societies choose to...
kadbudugorjeligradovi:
“There is literally nothing Larry Summers can do to get excommunicated from the...”
– Zombie Larry Summers Could Reappear as Head of the World Bank (via n8han)
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“No matter what we call it, sound money is still sound money, gold is still gold,...”
– Derrick Jensen (via incorrectderrickjensenquotes)
omg. hahahaha
15 of the Deadliest Corporations →
stay-human:
These corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.
I don’t think the list is in any particular order. Even if you don’t agree with all of them (eg. the...
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“”One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in...”
– And this is what really got Dr. MLK killed. (via black-culture)
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I am continually stunned by how many seemingly...
cultureofresistance:
revolutionofconsciousness:
I shouldn’t be surprised though. Our entire culture is based on a series of lies so deeply ingrained that they go entirely unquestioned. Our economic system is built around the logical fallacy of infinite growth on a finite planet. When the system can no longer grow, it will inevitably collapse.
Even more disturbing is the fact that beliefs...
“Acts of sabotage are very important. It is necessary to distinguish clearly...”
– Che Guevara (via cultureofresistance)
Earth 'will expire by 2050' →
cultureofresistance:
Sure, let’s spread industrial civilization to dominate and destroy other planets!
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Earth’s population will be forced to colonise two planets within 50 years if natural resources continue to be exploited at the current rate, according to a report out this week.
A study by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), to be released on Tuesday, warns that the human race is plundering the...
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When told that my rejection of civilization is...
permanentlyundefeated:
It is not idealism to recognize the science of climate change, nor the extraordinary burden industrial civilization is putting on our planet, nor the simple logical step that growth of consumption cannot exceed our rapidly depleting finite resources, nor that the maintenance of our landbases is absolutely essential for the preservation of life, both human and ...
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“Our resistance to the planet’s destruction—this resistance is often called...”
– Derrick Jensen (via oniverse)
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“Do you ever have those moments where suddenly you make a quantum jump in...”
– Derrick Jensen. Endgame, Volume II: Resistance, Page 530 (via weknowsolittle)
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“There are, as with so many activities we may find intimidating, several...”
– Derrick Jensen, Endgame Vol I The Problem of Civilization, on taking action to save our planet from a culture of destruction.
I have to say, this left me in contemplation. I have known for a long time that this life is not how we were meant to live. I’ve continually asked the question “Why?” and...
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“¿Has tenido alguna vez uno de esos momentos en los cuales tu entendimiento da un...”
– Derrick Jensen (via zeitgeist-tj)
“The defeatist attitude makes me want to scream. The battles we are fighting are...”
– Waziyatawin, quoted by Derrick Jensen in Dreams (via cultureofresistance)
michael pollan - in defense of food--an eater's...
kadbudugorjeligradovi:
Culture Of Resistance: Hell →
therikeone:
To me, Hell would be a place that is bountiful and rich with natural resources, plants and animals. The reason I would call such a place Hell, is because it seems like the dominant species of said planet, somehow came up with the idea of putting a price tag on everything that…
