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Deep ecology progenitors in Europe & Australia in the 70s & 80′s were in fact overtly racist, and praised famine in the global south as “nature restoring. Though, to be fair; Those books are pretty good and in some very odd way, much closer to my views than Jensen himself seems to be these days. Deep Green Resistance Ireland. The goal of DGR is to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability. The DGR organization is largely based on the book Deep Green Resistance, which was written by Lierre Keith, Aric McBay, and Derrick Jensen and released in spring 2011. Synopsis Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can't fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won't stop it.

For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, 'Do you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life?' No one ever says yes.

Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can't fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won’t stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy.

Deep Green Resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful. It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruitment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and underground action.

Deep Green Resistance also discusses a culture of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play. Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planet—and win. Free Download Link #1: Free Download Link #2: http://uploading.com/files/m31911b1/ResistanceB.pdf/. Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet by Derrick Jensen.

1. DEEP GREEN RESISTANCEStrategy to Save the Planet Aric McBay, Uerre Keith, and Derrick Jensen Seven Stories Press IO IIlIIl. Copyright © 2 0 1 1 by the authorsA Seven Stories Press First EditionAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced.

Stored in a retrievalsystem. Or transmitted in any form or by any means. Including mechanical. Or otherwise. Without the prior written permission ofthe publisher.Seven Stories Press140 Watts StreetNew York.

NY 10013www.sevenstories.comCollege professors may order examination copies of Seven Stories Press titles fora free six-month trial period. Visit send a fax on school letterhead to (212) 226.1411.Book design by Jon GilbertLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataM cBay. Aric.Deep green resistance: strategy to save the planet / Aric McBay. Lierre Keith. AndDerrick Jensen. Em.Includes bibliographical references.ISBN 978-1-58322-929-3 (pbk.)I. Sustainable living.

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Title.G E 1 95M385 20II333.72-dc22 I 20II007287Printed in the United States. ContentsAuthors Note. 9Preface by Derrick Jensen. 11Part I: ResistanceI. The Problem by Lierre Keith.

Civilization and Other Hazards by Anc McBay. Liberals and Radicals by Lierre Keith. Culture of Resistance by Lierre Keith.1135. Other Plans by Lierre Keith.

A Taxonomy of Action by Anc McBay. 239Part II: Organization7. The Psychology of Resistance by Anc McBay.2798.

Organizational Structure by Anc McBay.2919. Decision Making by Anc McBay.30710. Recruitment by Anc McBay 313II. Security by Anc McBay.329Part I II: Strategy and Tactics12. Introduction to Strategy by Anc McBay. Tactics and Targets by Anc McBay.

Decisive Ecological Warfare by Anc McBay.425Part IV: The Future15. Our Best Hope by Lierre Keith.477Epilogue: Getting Started. Figures3-1: Horizontal Hostility. 856-1: A Taxonomy of Action. 243Organizational Network Types 8-1: Individuals.294 8-2: Affinity Groups.295 8-3= Networks.296 8-4: Hierarchy.2978-5: Underground Network/Aboveground Movement.30013-1: Aboveground Operations.39313-2: Underground Operations.39413-3: Just vs. Strategic.40713-4: Just vs.

Strategic (annotated).408 I. I found it was better to fight, always,no matter what.-Andrea Dworkin. AUTHORS NOTEBefore we started writing this book, the three authors-Aric, Uerre,and Derrick-decided to divide the material we wanted to cover amongourselves, so that every chapter would have one main author. The 'I' ineach chapter refers to the person responsible for writing it. The chap­ters conclude with Derricks answers to questions he is frequentlyasked on the subject of resistance.

Preface by Derrick Jensen Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just do not dare express themselves as we did.Sophie Scholl, The White Rose SocietyThis book is about fighting back. The dominant culture-civilization­is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who careabout lif on earth to begin taking the actions necessary to stop this cul­ eture from destroying every living being. By now we all know the statistics and trends: 90 percent of the largefish in the oceans are gone, there is ten times as much plastic as phy­toplankton in the oceans, 97 percent of native forests are destroyed, 98percent of native grasslands are destroyed, amphibian populations arecollapsing, migratory songbird populations are collapsing, molluskpopulations are collapsing, fish populations are collapsing, and so on.Two hundred species are driven extinct each and every day.

If we dontknow those statistics and trends, we should. This culture destroys landbases. Thats what it does. When you thinkof Iraq, is the first thing that comes to mind cedar forests so thick thatsunlight never touched the ground? One of the first written myths ofthis culture is about Gilgamesh deforesting the hills and valleys of Iraqto build a great city. The Arabian Peninsula used to be oak savannah.The Near East was heavily forested (weve all heard of the cedars ofLebanon). Greece was heavily forested.

North Africa was heavilyforested. Well say it again: this culture destroys landbases. And it wont stop doing so because we ask nicely. We dont live in a democracy. And before you gasp at this blasphemy,ask yourself: Do governments better serve corporations or livingbeings? Does the judicial system hold CEOs accountable for theirdestructive, often murderous acts? Here are a couple of riddles that arent very funny-Q: What do you 11.

12 Prefaceget when you cross a long drug habit, a quick temper, and a gun? A:Two life terms for murder, earliest release date 2026.

Q: What do youget when you cross two nation-states, a large corporation, forty tons ofpoison, and at least 8,000 dead human beings? A: Retirement, withfull pay and benefits (Warren Anderson, CEO of Union Carbide, whichcaused the mass murder at Bhopal).

Do the rich face the same judicial system as you or I? Does life onearth have as much standing in a court as does a corporation? We all know the answers to these questions. And we know in our bones, if not our heads, that this culture willnot undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sus­tainable way of living. We-Aric, Lierre, and J?errick-have askedthousands upon thousands of people from all walks of life, fromactivists to students to people we meet on buses and planes, whetherthey believe this culture will undergo that voluntary transformation.Almost no one ever says yes.

If you care about life on this planet, and if you believe this culturewont voluntarily cease to destroy it, how does that belief affect yourmethods of resistance? Most people dont know, because most people dont talk about it. This book talks about it: this book is about that shift in strategy, andtactics. This book is about fighting back. We must put our bodies and our lives between the industrial systemand life on this planet. We must start to fight back.

Those who comeafter, who inherit whatevers left of the world once this culture has beenstopped-whether through peak oil, economic collapse, ecological col­lapse, or the efforts of brave women and men resisting in all�nce withthe natural world-are going to judge us by the health of the landbase,by what we leave behind. Theyre not going to care how you or I livedour lives. Theyre not going to care how hard we tried. Theyre notgoing to care whether we were nice people. Theyre not going to carewhether we were nonviolent or violent. Theyre not going to carewhether we grieved the murder of the planet. Theyre not going to carewhether we were enlightened or not.

Theyre not going to care whatsort of excuses we had to not act (e.g., 'Im too stressed to think about. Preface 13it,' or ' Its too big and scary,' or ' Im too busy,' or ' But those in powerwill kill us if we effectively act against them,' or ' If we fight back, werun the risk of becoming like they are,' or ' But I recycled,' or any of athousand other excuses weve all heard too many times). Theyre notgoing to care how simply we lived. Theyre not going to care how purewe were in thought or action. Theyre not going to care if we becamethe change we wished to see. Theyre not going to care whether wevoted Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, or not at all.

Theyrenot going to care if we wrote really big books about it. Theyre not goingto care whether we had 'compassion' for the CEOs and politicians run­ning this deathly economy. Theyre going to care whether they can breathe the air and drink thewater. We can fantasize all we want about some great turning, but ifthe people (including the nonhuman people) cant breathe, it doesntmatter.Every new study reveals that global warming is happening far morequickly than was previously anticipated.

Staid scientists are now sug­gesting the real possibility of billions of human beings being killed offby what some are calling a Climate Holocaust. A recently released studysuggests an increase in temperatures of 16°C (30°F) by the year 2100.

We are not talking about this culture killing humans, and indeed theplanet, sometime in the far-distant future. This is the future that chil­dren born today will see, and suffer, in their lifetimes. Honestly, is this culture worth more than the lives of your own chil­dren?In The Nazi Doctors, Robert Jay Lifton explored how it was that menwho had taken the Hippocratic Oath could lend their skills to concen­tration camps where inmates were worked to death or killed inassembly lines.

He found that many of the doctors honestly cared fortheir charges, and did everything within their power-which means. 14 Prefacepathetically little-to make life better for the inmates. If an inmate gotsick, they might give the inmate an aspirin to lick. They might put theinmate to bed for a day or two (but not for too long or the inmate mightbe 'selected' for murder). If the patient had a contagious disease, theymight kill the patient to keep the disease from spreading. All of thismade sense within the confines of Auschwitz. The doctors, once again,did everything they could to help the inmates, except for the mostimportant thing of all: They never questioned the existence ofAuschwitz itself.

They never questioned working the inmates to death.They never questioned starving them to death. They never questionedimprisoning them. They never questioned torturing them.

They neverquestioned the existence of a culture that would lead to these atrocities.They never questioned the logic that leads inevitably to the electrifiedfences, the gas chambers, the bullets in the brain. We as environmentalists do the same.

We fight as hard as we can toprotect the places we love, using the tools of the system the best thatwe can. Yet we do not do the most important thing of all: We do notquestion the existence of this deathly culture. We do not question theexistence of an economic and social system that is working the world todeath, that is starving it to death, that is imprisoning it, that is torturingit. We never question the logic that leads inevitably to clear-cuts, mur­dered oceans, loss of topsoil, dammed rivers, poisoned aquifers. And we certainly dont act to stop these horrors.

How do you stop global warming that is caused in great measure bythe burning of oil and gas? If you ask any reasonably intelligent seven­year-old, that child should be able to give you the obvious answer. Butif you ask any reasonably intelligent thirty-five-year-old who works fora green high-tech consulting corporation, youll probably r.eceive ananswer that helps the corporation more than the real, physical world. When most people in this culture ask, 'How can we stop globalwarming?' They arent really asking what they pretend theyre asking.They are instead asking, 'How can we stop global warming withoutstopping the burning of oil and gas, without stopping the industrialinfrastructure, without stopping this omnicidal system?' The answer:you cant.

Heres yet another way to look at it: What would you do if space. Preface 15aliens had invaded this planet, and they were vacuuming the oceans,and scalping native forests, and putting dams on every river, andchanging the climate, and putting dioxin and dozens of other carcino­gens into every mothers breast milk, and into the flesh of yourchildren, lover, mother, father, brother, sister, friends, into your ownflesh? Would you resist? If there existed a resistance movement, wouldyou join it?

If not, why not? How much worse would the damage haveto get before you would stop those who were killing the planet, killingthose you love, killing you? Ninety percent of the large fish in the oceans are already gone.Where is your threshold for resistance? Is it 91 percent? 94?Would you wait till they had killed off 95 percent?

99?How about 100 percent? Would you fight back then?

By asking these questions we are in no way implying that peopleshould not try to work within the system to slow this cultures destruc­tiveness. Right now a large energy corporation, state and federalgovernments, local Indian nations, and various interest groups (fromenvironmental organizations to fishermen to farmers) are negotiatingto remove five dams on the Klamath River within the next fifteen years(whether salmon will survive that long is dubious). Thats something.Thats important. But there are 2 million dams in the United States alone; 60,000 ofthose dams are taller than thirteen feet, and 70,000 are taller than sixfeet.

If we only took out one of those 70,000 dams per day, it wouldtake us 200 years. Salmon dont have that time.

Sturgeon dont havethat time. If salmon could take on human manifestation, what would they do? This book is about fighting back. And what do we mean by fighting back? As well explore in thisbook, it means first and foremost thinking and feeling for ourselves,finding who and what we love, and figuring out how best to defend ourbeloved, using the means that are appropriate and necessary. Thestrategy of Deep Green Resistance (DGR) starts by acknowledging thedire circumstances that industrial civilization has created for life onthis planet.

The goal of DG R is to deprive the rich of their ability to stealfrom the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. It. 16 Prefacealso means defending and rebuilding just and sustainable human com­munities nestled inside repaired and restored landbases. This is a vastundertaking, but it can be done. Industrial civilization can be stopped. IS1 lSI lSIPeople routinely approach each of this books authors-Aric, Lierre,and Derrick-and tell us how their hope and despair have merged intoone. They no longer want to do everything they can to protect the placesthey love, everything, that is, except the most important thing of all: tobring down the culture itself.

They want to go on the offensive. Theywant to stop this culture in its tracks. But they dont know how. This book is about creating a culture of resistance. And its aboutcreating an actual resistance.

Its about creating the conditions forsalmon to be able to return, for songbirds to be able to return, foramphibians to be able to return. This book is about fighting back. And this book is about winning.

LSI lSI lSIDirect actions against strategic infrastructure is a basic tactic of bothmilitaries and insurgents the world over for the simple reason that itworks. But such actions alone are never a sufficient strategy forachieving a just outcome. This means that any strategy aiming for ajust future must include a call to build direct democracies based onhuman rights and sustainable material cultures.

The differentbranches of these resistance movements must work in taruiem: thea,boveground and belowground, the militants and the nonviolent, thefrontline activists and the cultural workers. We need it all. And we need courage. The word 'courage' comes from the sameroot as coeur, the French word for heart. We need all the courage ofwhich the human heart is capable, forged into both weapon and shieldto defend what is left of this planet.

And the lifeblood of courage is, ofcourse, love. So while this is a book about fighting back, in the end this is a book. Preface 17about love. The songbirds and the salmon need your heart, no matterhow weary, because even a broken heart is still made oflove.

They needyour heart because they are disappearing, slipping into that longestnight of extinction, and the resistance is nowhere in sight. We will haveto build that resistance from whatever comes to hand: whispers andprayers, history and dreams, from our bravest words and braveractions. It will be hard, there will be a cost, and in too many implacabledawns it will seem impossible. But we will have to do it anyway. Sogather your heart and join with every living being. With love as our FirstCause, how can we fail?.

PART I: RESISTANCE. (Japtlr 1 The Problem by Lierre Keith You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral lif if youre not e willing to open your eyes and see the world more dearly.

See some of the injustice thats going on. Try to make yourself aware of whats happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.Bill Ayers, cofounder of the Weather UndergroundA black tern weighs barely two ounces.

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On energy reserves less than asmall bag of M& Ms and wings that stretch to cover twelve inches, sheflies thousands of miles, searching for the wetlands that will harbor heryoung. Every year the journey gets longer as the wetlands are desiccatedfor human demands. Every year the tern, desperate and hungry, loses,while civilization, endless and sanguineous, wins. G A polar bear should wei h 650 pounds.

Her energy reserves aremeant to see her through nine long months of dark, denned gestation,and then lactation, when she will give up her dwindling stores to theneedy mouths of her species future. But in some areas, the femalesweight before hibernation has already dropped from 650 to 507pounds. I Meanwhile, the ice has evaporated like the wetlands. Whenshe wakes, the waters will stretch impassably open, and there is noAbrahamic god of bears to part them for her.

The Aldabra snail should weigh something, but all thats left toweigh are skeletons, bits of orange and indigo shells. The snail hasbeen declared not just extinct, but the first casualty of global warming.In dry periods, the snail hibernated. The young of any species arealways more vulnerable, as they have no reserves from which to draw.In this case, the adults 'reproductive success' was a 'completefailure.' In plain terms, the babies died and kept dying, and a speciesmillions of years old is now a pile of shell fragments.

What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? Weare living in a period of mass extinction.

The numbers stand at 200species a day) Thats 73,000 a year. This culture is oblivious to their 21. 22 Part I: Resistancepassing, feels entitled to their every last niche, and there is no roll callon the nightly news. There is a name for the tsunami wave of extermination: theHolocene extinction event. Theres no asteroid this time, only humanbehavior, behavior that we could choose to stop.

Adolph Eichmansexcuse was that no one told him that the concentration camps werewrong. Weve all seen the pictures of the drowning polar bears. Are weso ethically numb that we need to be told this is wrong?

There are voices raised in concern, even anguish, at the plight of theearth, the rending of its species. 'Only zero emissions can prevent awarmer planet,' one pair of climatologists declare.4 James Lovelock,originator of the Gaia hypothesis, states bluntly that global warminghas passed the tipping point, carbon offsetting is a joke, and 'individuallifestyle adjustments' are 'a deluded fantasy.' 5 Its all true, and self-evi­dent. 'Simple living' should start with simple observation: if burningfossil fuels will kill the planet, then stop burning them. But that conclusion, in all its stark clarity, is not the popular one todraw.

The moment policy makers and environmental groups startoffering solutions is the exact moment when they stop telling the truth,inconvenient or otherwise. Google 'global warming solutions.' Thefirst paid sponsor, Campaign Earth, urges 'No doom and gloom!!

Whenwas the last time depression got you really motivated? Were here toinspire realistic action steps and stories of success.' By 'realistic' theydont mean solutions that actually match the scale of the problem. Theymean the usual consumer choices-cloth shopping bags, travel mugs,and misguided dietary advice-which will do exactly nothing to disruptthe troika of industrialization, capitalism, and patriarchy that is skin­ning the planet alive. As Derrick has pointed out elsewh�re, even ifevery American took every single action suggested by Al Gore it wouldonly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 21 percent.6 Aric tells a starktruth: even if through simple living and rigorous recycling you stoppedyour own average Americans annual one ton of garbage production,'your per capita share of the industrial waste produced in the US is stillalmost twenty-six tons.

Thats thirty-seven times as much waste as youwere able to save by eliminating a full 100 percent of your personalwaste.' 7 Industrialism itself is what has to stop. There is no kinder,.

The Problem 23greener version that will do the trick of leaving us a living planet. Inblunt terms, industrialization is a process of taking entire communi­ties of living beings and turning them into commodities and deadzones. Could it be done more 'efficiently'? Sure, we could use a littleless fossil fuels, but it still ends in the same wastelands of land, water,and sky. We could stretch this endgame out another twenty years, butthe planet still dies.

Trace every industrial artifact back to its source­which isnt hard, as they all leave trails of blood-and you find the samedevastation: mining, clear-cuts, dams, agriculture. And now tar sands,mountaintop removal, wind farms (which might better be called deadbird and bat farms). No amount of renewables is going to make up forthe fossil fuels or change the nature of the extraction, both of whichare prerequisites for this way of lif Neither fossil fuels nor extracted e.substances will ever be sustainable; by definition, they will run out.Bringing a cloth shopping bag to the store, even if you walk there inyour Global Warming Flip-Flops, will not stop the tar sands. But sincethese actions also wont disrupt anyones life, theyre declared both real­istic and successful. The next sites Take Action page includes the usual: buying lightbulbs, inflating tires, filling dishwashers, shortening showers, andrearranging the deck chairs. It also offers the ever-crucial GlobalWarming Bracelets and, more importantly, Flip-Flops.

Star rating jquery download for pc. Polar bearseverywhere are weeping with relief. The first noncommercial site is the Union of Concerned Scientists.As one might expect, there are no exclamation points, but instead astatement that 'the burning of fossil fuel (oil, coal, and natural gas)alone counts for about 75 percent of annual C02 emissions.' This isfollowed by a list of Five Sensible Steps. No, not stopburning fossil fuels-' Make Better Cars and S UVs.'

Never mind thatthe automobile itself is the pollution, with its demands-for space, forspeed, for fuel-in complete opposition to the needs of both a viablehuman community and a living planet. Like all the others, the scien­tists refuse to call industrial civilization into question.

We can have aliving planet and the consumption thats killing the planet, cant we? The principle here is very simple. As Derrick has written, 'Alnysocial system based on the use of nonrenewable resources is by defi-. 24 Part I: Resistancenition unsustainable.' 8 Just to be clear, nonrenewable means it willeventually run out.

Once youve grasped that intellectual complexity, youcan move on to the next level. 'Any culture based on the nonrenewableuse of renewable resources is just as unsustainable.' Trees are renew­able. But if we use them faster than they can grow, the forest will turnto desert. Which is precisely what civilization has been doing for its10,000 year campaign, running through soil, rivers, and forests as wellas metal, coal.

Now the oceans are almost dead and theirplankton populations are collapsing, populations that both feed the lifeof the oceans and create oxygen f the planet. What will we fill our orlungs with when they are gone? The plastics with which industrial civ­ilization is replacing them? In parts of the Pacific, plastic outweighsplankton 48 to 1.9 Imagine if it were your blood, your heart, crammedwith toxic materials-not just chemicals, but physical gunk-untilthere was ten times more of it than you. What metaphor is adequatef the dying plankton? Or But the oceans dont need our metaphors. They need action.

Theyneed industrial civilization to stop destroying and devouring. In otherwords, they need us to make it stop.

Which is why we are writing this book. LSI lSI lSIMost people, or at least most people with a beating heart, have alreadydone the math, added up the arrogance, sadism, stupidity, and denial,and reached the bottom line: a dead planet. Some of us carry that finalsum like the weight of a corpse. For others, that conclusion turns theheart to a smoldering coal. But despair and rage have beep declaredunevolved and unclean, beneath the 'spiritual warriors' who insist theywill save the planet by 'healing' themselves.

How this activity will stopthe release of carbon and the felling of forests is never actuallyexplained. The answer lies vaguely between being the change we wishto see and a 100th monkey of hope, a monkey that is frankly moreChristmas pony than actual possibility. Given that the culture of America is founded on individualism andawash in privilege, its no surprise that narcissism is the end result. The Problem 25The social upheavals of the 60S split along fault lines of responsibilityand hedonism, of justice and selfishness, of sacrifice and entitlement.What we are left with is an alternative culture, a small, separate worldof the converted, content to coexist alongside a virulent mainstream.Here, one can find workshops on 'scarcity consciousness,' as if povertywere a state of mind and not a structural support of capitalism. Thisculture leaves us ill-prepared to face the crisis of planetary biocide thatgreets us daily with its own grim dawn. The facts are not conducive toan open-hearted state of wonder. To confront the truth as adults, not asfaux children, requires an adult fortitude and courage, grounded in ouradult responsibilities to the world.

It requires those things because thesituation is horrific and living with that knowledge will hurt. Mean­while, I have been to workshops where global warming was treated asan opportunity for personal growth, and no one there but me saw aproblem with that.

The word sustainable-the ' Praise, Jesus!' Of the eco-earnest-servesas an example of the worst tendencies of the alternative culture. Its aword that perfectly meshes corporate marketers carefully calculatedupswell of green sentiment with the relentless denial of the privileged.Its a word I can barely stand to use because it has been so exsan­guinated by cheerleaders for a technotopic, consumer kingdom come.To doubt the vague promise now firmly embedded in the word-thatwe can have our cars, our corporations, our consumption, and ourplanet, too-is both treason and heresy to the emotional well-being ofmost progressives. But heres the question: Do we want to feel better ordo we want to be effective? Are we sentimentalists or are we warriors? For 'sustainable' to mean anything, we must embrace and thendefend the bare truth: the planet is primary.

The life-producing workof a million species is literally the earth, air, and water that we dependon. No human activity-not the vacuous, not the sublime-is worthmore than that matrix. Neither, in the end, is any human life.

If we usethe word ' sustainable' and dont mean that, then we are liars of theworst sort: the kind who let atrocities happen while we stand by and donothing. Even if it were possible to reach narcissists, we are out of time.Admitting we have to move forward without them, we step away from. 26 Part I: Resistancethe cloying childishness and optimistic white-lite denial of so much ofthe left and embrace our adult knowledge. With all apologies to Yeats,in knowledge begins responsibilities. Its to you grown-ups, thegrieving and the raging, that we address this book.The vast majority of the population will do nothing unless they are led,cajoled, or forced.

If the structural determinants are in place for peopleto live their lives without doing damage-for example, if theyre hunter­gatherers with respected elders-then thats what happens. If, on theother hand, the environment has been arranged for cars, industrialschooling is mandatory, resisting war taxes will land you in jail, food isonly available through giant corporate enterprises selling giant corpo­rate degradation, and misogynist pornography is only a click away24/7-well, welcome to the nightmare. This culture is basically con­ducting a massive Milgram experiment on us, only the electric shocksarent fake-theyre killing off the planet, species by species.

But wherever there is oppression there is resistance. That is trueeverywhere, and has been forever. The resistance is built body by bodyfrom a tiny few, from the stalwart, the brave, the determined, who arewilling to stand against both power and social censure. It is our pre­diction that there will be no mass movement, not in time to save thisplanet, our home. That tiny percent-Margaret Meads small group ofthoughtful, committed citizens-has been able to shift both the cul­tural consciousness and the power structures toward justice in timespast. It is valid to long for a mass movement, however, no matter howmuch we rationally know that were wishing on a star. Theoretically,the human race as a whole could face our situation and make somedecisions-tough decisions, but fair ones, that include an equitable dis­tribution of both resources and justice, that respect and embrace thelimits of our planet.

But none of the institutions that govern our lives,from the economic to the religious, are on the side of justice or sus­tainability. Theoretically, these institutions could be forced to change.The history of every human rights struggle bears witness to howcourage and sacrifice can dismantle power and injustice. But again, it. The Problem 27takes time. If we had a thousand years, even a hundred years, buildinga movement to transform the dominant institutions around the globewould be the task before us.

But the Western black rhinoceros is out oftime. So is the golden toad, the pygmy rabbit. No one is going to savethis planet except us. So what are our options? The usual approach of long, slow institu­tional change has been foreclosed, and many of us know that. Thedefault setting for environmentalists has become personal lifestyle'choices.'

This should have been predictable as it merges perfectly intothe demands of capitalism, especially the condensed corporate versionmediating our every impulse into their profit. But we cant consumeour way out; The gap between the rich and the poor has continued to grow rap­idly. The income of the richest I percent of people equals that of thepoorest 57 percent.

26 The three richest people own more than thepoorest 10 percent of people combined. This inequality occurs bothbetween and within countries.

In 1992 the pay ratio between the CEOand the average American worker was about 42 to I. By the year 2000it had grown to 525 to I. Civilization is not one hierarchy, but multiple interlocking hierar­chies and systems of oppression based on gender, race, and class. Forexample, women do two-thirds of global work, earn less than 1 0 per­cent of wages, and own less than I percent of wealth. 27 We can makesimilar observations about race and class.

Some say that even the poor are wealthier now than ever before inhistory, which depends on how you measure 'wealth.' (But thats notvery meaningful when the global economy is based on dwindling sup­plies of finite resources, meaning such 'wealth' is short-lived and basedon future impoverishment.) The next fifty years aside, the past fifty aretelling. In 2007 some 57 percent of 6.5 billion people were malnour­ished, up from 20 percent of a 2.5 billion population in 1950,8 This wealth and well-being gap is partly a by-product of the mantraof profit-at-any-cost, but also from deliberate attempts to harm or 'impoverish, so that marginalized people are less able to mount resist­ance against occupation and resource extraction. As Nobel Peace Prizelaureate and war criminal Dr. Henry Kissinger infamously advised,' Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towardsthe third world, because the U S economy will require large andincreasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from lessdeveloped countries.' International policies like structural adjustment programs (SAPs). Civilization and Other Hazards 41are just the latest form of colonialism.

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SAPs force poor countries toincrease tax collection and cut government spending, sell off publiclands and enterprises to private corporations, and remove restrictions(like those pesky labor and environmental policies) on trade and thegeneration of profit. SAPs have been criticized from the beginning fordramatically increasing poverty and inequality, reversing land reforms,and forcing people off the land and into urban slums.29 These policies often go hand in hand with inducements to borrowmoney from the industrialized nations to buy infrastructure or com­modities from those very countries, one of many practices which hasresulted in crushing debt in the third world. In some countries, such asKenya and Burundi, debt repayment vastly outstrips spending on socialservices like health care.

The cancellation of debt has been shown toresult in a prompt and significant increase in social spending.J° Thepoor countries of the world pay about $4 million in debt per hour. Enormous as this may seem when we compare it to our own house­hold budgets, its small compared to the $58 million the US spendson the military each hourY According to the Stockholm InternationalPeace Research Institute, global military spending now exceeds 1.3 tril­lion dollars. Although spending dipped after the end of the Cold War,it began to climb more steeply with the so-called War on Terror andhas now approached its previous peakY The United States, whichuses the majority of its discretionary budget on the military, spendsalmost as much as all other countries combined, and, after accountingfor inflation, recently surpassed its own Cold War record for annualspending.31 There have been social advances over the last century, especially incivil rights for people of color and women. But human societies ulti­mately rest on the foundation of the landbase, and global ecocidethreatens to reverse the progress that has been made. Economic criseswill occur and worsen, but they are difficult to predict because financeis imaginary. The state of the real world, on the other hand, requiresno speculation.In Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, William R.Catton Jr.

Identifies 'drawdown' as 'an inherently temporary expedient. 42 Part I: Resistanceby which life opportunities i.e., carrying capacity for a species are tem­porarily increased by extracting from the environment for use by thatspecies some significant fraction of an accumulated resource that isnot being replaced as fast as it is drawn down.' Drawdown meansusing reserves, rather than income, to meet yearly demand. Industrialdrawdown increases both the human population and the 'overhead'costs of operating industrial society. The dominant culture is utterly reliant on drawdown, such that it ishard to identify something thats not being drawn down at a staggeringrate. The most crucial substances to industrial society and humanlife-soil, water, cheap energy, food stocks-are exactly those beingdrawn down most rapidly. And as Catton writes, the use of drawdownis an 'inescapably dead-end' approach.Cheap oil undergirds every aspect of industrial society.

Without oil,industrial farms couldnt grow food, consumer goods couldnt be trans­ported globally, and superpowers couldnt wage war on distantcountries. Peak oil is already causing disruption in societies around theworld, with cascading effects on everything from food production tothe global economy. Peak oil extraction has passed and extraction will decline from thispoint onward. No industrial renewables are adequate substitutes.Richard C. Duncan sums it up in his ' Olduvai Theory' of industrialcivilization.

Duncan predicted a gradual per capita energy declinebetween 1979 and 1999 (the 'slope') followed by a 'slide' of energyproduction that 'begins in 2000 with the escalating warfare in theMiddle East' and that 'marks the all-time peak of world oil production.' After that is the 'cliff,' which 'begins in 2012 when an epidemic of per- Imanent blackouts spreads worldwide, i.e., first there are waves ofbrownouts and temporary blackouts, then finally the electric power net­works themselves expire.' 34 According to Duncan, 2030 marks the endof industrial civilization and a return to 'global equilibrium'-namely,the Stone Age. Natural gas is also near peak production. Other fossil fuels, such astar sands and coal, are harder to access and offer a poor energy return.The ecological effects of extracting and processing those fuels (let alone. Civilization and Other Hazards 43the effects of burning them) would be disastrous even compared topetroleums abysmal record. Will peak oil avert global warming?

Probably not. Its true that cheapoil has no adequate industrial substitute.

However, the large use of coalpredates petroleum. Even postcollapse, its possible that large amountsof coal, tar sands, and other dirty fossil fuels could be used.

Although peak oil is a crisis, its effects are mostly beneficial: reducedburning of fossil fuels, reduced production of garbage, and decreasedconsumption of disposable goods, reduced capacity for superpowers toproject their power globally, a shift toward organic food growingmethods, a necessity for stronger communities, and so on. The worsteffects of peak oil will be secondary-caused not by peak oil, but by theresponse of those in power. Suffering a shortage of fossil fuels? Start turning food into fuel orcutting down forests to digest them into synthetic petroleum. Economiccollapse causing people to default on their mortgages?

Fuel too expen­sive to run some machines? The capitalists will find a way to kill twobirds with one stone and institute a system of debtors prisons that willdouble as forced labor camps. A large number of prisons in the US andaround the world already make extensive use of barely paid prisonlaborers, after all. Mass slavery, gulags, and the like are common in pre­industrial civilizations. You get the idea.Industrial civilization is heavily dependent on many different finiteresources and materials, a fact which makes its goal of perpetualgrowth impossible. In particular, certain metals are in short supply.35Running out of cheap platinum wouldnt have much ecologicalimpact.

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But shortages of more crucial minerals, like copper, willhamper industrial societys ability to cope with its own collapse.Severe shortages and high prices will worsen the social and ecologicalpractices of mining companies (bad as they are now). These short­ages would also represent a failure of industrial civilizationsfundamental and false promise to expand and bring its benefits to allpeople in the world. According to one study, upgrading the infra­structure in the 'developing world' to the status of the 'developedworld' would require essentially all of the copper and zinc (and pos-. 44 Part I: Resistancesibly all the platinum) in the earths crust, as well as near-perfectmetal recycling.36The growing global food crisis is a severe confluence of economic, polit­ical, and ecological factors.

Right now plenty of food is being produced,but for economic reasons it isnt being distributed fairly. If, at its apexof production, industrial agriculture cant feed everyone, imagine whatwill happen when it collapses. Prices for corn and rice are already dra­matically increasing, in part because of biofuels, even though thebiofuel industry is still small. The food crisis is going to get worse, but its not going to be a' Malthusian crisis,' in which a crisis exponential population growthoutpaces increasing agricultural production. Our crisis is likely to cul­minate in a decrease in agricultural production caused by energy declineand increasing use of biofuels, and worsened by climate change andecological damage.

Sustainable ways of growing food are labor-inten­sive because they are horticultural and polycultural, rather thanagricultural and monocultural. (That is, sustainable methods are small­scale and ecologically diverse, rather than the opposite.) As soilmicrobiologist Peter Salonius states flatly, ' Intensive crop culture forhigh populations) is unsustainable.

'37 The longer humanity waitsbefore switching to sustainable food sources and reversing populationgrowth, the greater the disparity will be between carrying capacity andpopulation.The food crisis is deeply tied to two other ecological crises: water draw­down and soil loss. Industrial water consumption is drying up rivers andswallowing entire aquifers around the world. Although shallow ground- Iwater can gradually be replenished by rainfall, when those suppliesbecome depleted many farms and industries use deep wells with pow­erful pumps to extract water from fossil aquifers, which arentreplenished by rainfall. This shift to industrial drilling for water­essentially water mining-has caused major drops in water tables.

InI ndia, for example, deep electrically pumped wells used by large cash­crop monoculture farms have caused a major drop in water tables. Thismeans small and subsistence farmers who use hand wells are losing.

Civilization and Other Hazards 45their water supplies, a disaster which has caused a dramatic rise in sui­cides.l8 Approximately half of hand-dug wells in I ndia-up to 95percent of all wells in some regions-are now dry, driving an aban­donment of rural villages. In the grain-growing regions of central China, the water table isdropping about 3 meters (10 feet) per year, and up to twice as fast inother areas.l9 Chinese wheat production fell by 34 million tons betweenI 9 98 and 2005, a gap larger than the annual wheat production ofCanada.40 In Saudi Arabia (as well as other countries), the technologybeing used for well drilling is now a modified version of oil drillingtechnology, because many wells must exceed one kilometer in depth toreach fresh water. Access to groundwater has always allowed agriculturalists to occa­sionally consume more water than rained down each year, but nowfarming around the world has become dependent on its overcon­sumption. And make no mistake, drawdown of aquifers through deepdrilling and pumping is utterly driven by and dependent on a highlyindustrialized culture. Without industrial machinery, even the mostunsustainable society would be limited to drawing the amount of waterthat the water table could sustainably recharge each year.

Furthermore,water used by industry and agriculture far outweighs residential wateruse, and typically less than I percent of residential water is actually usedf drinking. OrAmong the most threatening crisis is soil drawdown and desertification.I t takes a thousand years for the earth to create a few inches of topsoil.Currently, topsoil is being lost at ten to twenty times the rate at whichit can be replenished. In his book Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, geol­ogist David Montgomery traces the collapse of previous civilizationsthat destroyed the topsoil upon which they depended. He estimates thatabout I percent of the worlds topsoil is lost each year.41 According toUnited Nations University, by 2025 Africa may only have enough intactland to feed 25 percent of its human populationY Desertification is primarily caused by overcultivation, deforestation,overgrazing, and climate change. About 30 percent of Earths land sur­face is at risk of desertification, including 70 percent of all drylands.

46 Part I: ResistanceFifty-two thousand square kilometers are turned to desert each year;about the area of Hong Kong is turned to desert each week.