Collect Deep Green Resistance: Strategy To Save The Planet Engineered By Aric McBay Issued As Textbook

few pages in and I developed a migraine, What a load of incoherent, jumbled, selfrighteous 'weknowbetterhowtosavetheworld than the rest of you guys' hogwash, According to these authors, there is NO HOPE, so give up now or get out your bombs and guns and fight.


"The choice is to fight or to stand with those who fight, Anything else means the world will be left to die, " A direct quote from page, I kid you not, that sums up the entire premise of this book and the poor quality writing.
The quote was used to debunk the Town Transition Movement and "the cloying platitudes or the community confirmation bias of those who think seed swaps are the revolution.
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Yes, the entire book debunks: the sustainable movement, organic farming, veganism, consensus building, Richard Heinberg and peak oil and other environmental scholars of his ilk, with obnoxious sentences such as quoted above.


It is a doomsday book, deliberately attempting to disempower anyone and everyone for trying to live a more low impact sane and just life on Mother Earth, as well as dismantle the entire sustainability movement.
They even manage to dis the Black Panther movement, Mahatma Ghandi, all of Cuba, Malcolm X, the Diggers and all utopian societies throughout history, all pornography, pacifism and non violent action, spirituality, beatniks and hippies, etc.
There is so much name dropping and negative finger pointing and bizarre paranoiac accusations, your head will spin around on it's axis and eyes pop out.
I know mine did. These authors are equal opportunity haters, They hate everyone, but themselves,

I will not waste my intellect and time on finishing this trash, as I need to go save some seeds.
Haha!

I cannot help but wonder what the agenda of these authors really is and whose side they are really on Who put them up to this If they were truly left wing activists and environmentalists they are now turncoats, narcs or spys attempting to spew hate and cause division and derision within the environmental movement.


Read it and weep or get your gun and shoot some seed savers,

I can already tell that this is a life changing book, These authors have real answers, and they are rarely pleasant, complete

garbage. basically a recruiting tool for a hierarchical, authoritarian, transphobic cult, This is a manifesto, a history lesson, and a strategy guide for the Deep Green Resistance DGR movement sitelink org/, a radical environmentalist group that sees industrialized society, worldwide, as insane, and how we need to tear it all down to repair the planet and preserve what ecosystems remain.
Finally, Ive found people I can identify with, “This is the question on which the world entire may depend: Are you willing to accept the only strategy left to us Are you willing to set aside your last, fierce dream of that brave uprising of millions strong I know what I am asking.
The human heart needs hope as it needs air, But the existence of those brave millions is the empty hope of the desperate, and theyre not coming to our rescue” p.
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Hopium, greenwashing, and wishcycling are the new b, s. after fiftyplus years of being aware of our warming world and poisoned planet, Electric cars, wind turbines, LED bulbs, and composting are all delusions to keep us hopeful while the slowmotion apocalypse of inevitable collapse marches onward, gaining speed.
If you havent checked out PBSs Frontlines “The Power of Big Oil” series yet, do so, It shows how all this predates the Internet withyears of disinformation that seems impossible to combat, Willful ignorance, wanton greed, selfish laziness, nihilism, myopia, and all the cognitive traps our brains can manufacture to keep us from accepting the cold, hard reality of what anthropogenic warming is doing to the future of the biology of the Earth, are what DGR faces.
This book is meant to be that rude awakening,

“Systems of power are not swayed by moral exhortation, They dont care how wellbehaved you are, how much you believe in the power of healing, or how much you want the inner child of perpetrators and CEOs to feel the love they supposedly never got.
Their inner children are sociopathic, And out in the real world, they will turn fire hoses and German shepherds on your actual children, Nonviolent actionists have been gunned down in cold blood, tortured, thrown in jail to rot, Any quick perusal of the history of political struggle will yield the harsh truth, the lesson learned from Bloody Sunday to Tiananmen Square: nonviolence does not work by persuasion, nor does it offer protection, and the left needs to give up its maudlin belief in both.
Those are not the reasons to employ it,

Nonviolence works by facing the ruthless reality of oppression, identifying its linchpins, and using direct action to interrupt the flow of power and hopefully dislodge some portion of its foundation.
Instead of weapons, the technique uses people, usually large numbers of people willing to have direct confrontations with power, which means they risk getting killed.
The sooner the left faces the reality of that danger, the better prepared we will be to make strategic and tactical decisions, individually and collectively” p.
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Its funny, but DRG identifies as radicalfeministleft neoLuddites, but they are not liberal and Derrick Jensen describes himself as fundamentally conservative however, we all know the Right is now a lostcause cult of idiocy, corporate democrats are beholden to Wall Street and “the economy”, and the filthy rich and their corporations control almost everything.
“Our actionists are not trying to change consciousness, Theyre not trying to get press, Theyre not after a new government or a seat at a political table, They are trying to stop the burning of fossil fuels and industrialscale destruction of the lifesupport systems of their planet.
That is the goal of DGR, and DEW Decisive Ecological Warfare is their strategy” p,.

They have aboveground operations and underground ops, so read this book, perform your own research, and decide what you want the future to look like and what role youll play in its creation or destruction.
You can also listen to Susan Breen interviewed on the Green Root Podcast, Derrick Jensen interviewed for The Wilderness Podcast, and Aric McBay interviewed on Final Straw Radio to gain more insight into this movement.
Essentially the plan is this:

“As weve made clear, acts of omission are not going to bring down civilization.
Lets talk about action with more potential, We can split all acts of commission into six branches:
lobbying
protests and symbolic acts
education and awareness raising
support work and building alternatives
capacity building and logistics
and direct confrontation and conflict” p.
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Ive personally written off the first two as being pointless anymore, Our politicians are bought and paidfor by industrialism, and protests and all those beautiful photoop acts of symbolism accomplish absolutely nothing.
Personally I believe education is the crux of the issue, but even math is now politicized mindlessly, and the leftleaning press doesnt hammer the existential points home hard enough.
The billionaires will not save us, The youth will not save us, Even if we could grant every single person a quality education, it would take generations for the effects to take hold.
Like the recent IPCC reports summarize, but fail to say in blunt terms like DGR does, its already too late to do anything meaningful through the industrialized system as it is.
Capitalism is a disease. Greed is a pervasive bacterium, Consumerism, materialism, and waste are the appaling conditions of the human herd, The rich and powerful and all their millions of handpuppets will not concede, at least until the “poop” hits the fan one way or another a redneck revolution for the plutocrats and their puppetpoliticians, a destabilizing solar flare or wellplaced meteor strike, some powermad autocrat sending a nuke somewhere, the slowmotion apocalypse of industrial collapse, etc.
, or DGR fulfilling its desire to bring down the power grid and keep it down where everyones digital addictions go dark and stay dark, and where a collective perception shift overcomes all our vices to focus on a new future with drastically different priorities.
Gaia is the only concept of a “god” who should matter, In one of the podcast episodes above, Jensen mentions how if an alien species, no doubt tentacled and frothing, was here doing such destruction to our world, destroying the forests, stripping the topsoil, melting the polar icecaps and glaciers and permafrost, raising sea levels, polluting the rivers and lakes and oceans, the ruination of watersheds and erosion of shorelines, poisoning our food supplies, injecting lead and mercury and microplastics into our bloodstreams, toxifying the air and eroding the atmosphere, wed be at war with them, fighting them with tooth and claw to save our planetary home.
A radical, global campaign to bring the industrialized system down is humanitys last, best chance at saving itself from itself, and helping the Earth and its ecosystems heal, replenish, and flourish in the aftermath.


At the very least, there will be some who can honestly say they tried to avert the coming catastrophe.
A mustread. The magnitude of the degradation of the planet warrants this call to action, This book is in the top five of my list, Read it and activate. Do your conscience, as many suggestions are in this book, but do something, "of large fish in the oceans are gone,of native forests are destroyed, Our culture destroys landbases.of native grasslands are destroyed, Each dayspecies are driven to extinction, " This book offers a new way to think about environmental activism, I'm still notconvinced about agriculture what if it's done on a very small scale, but I agree withof their analysis.


Reading this book was the first time in awhile that my entire soul was set on fire with passion.
I actually had no idea just how much of the planet we had already destroyed, and how quickly we are killing what's left.
If I ever join or support an environmental group in the future, it will be DGR they are the only ones whose analysis matches the scope of the problem, and whose strategy aims to win no matter what.


I see ending industrial civilization as a logical, and necessary, extension of veganism/abolition, I know a lot of people would find that paradoxical, given that one of the coauthors, Lierre Keith, is a pretty outspoken critic of veganism.
But I went vegan because I believed that all sentient beings are equally entitled to their lives: so how could I continue to support a way of life that places the most trivial human wants above the lifeordeath needs of nonhumans That's a rhetorical question I can't.
Industrial civlization is incompatible with animal equality, with life, with anything that matters, really,

My slight issue with this book apart from the agriculture/vegan issue is that it's simply way too much to take in one reading.
I understand the point of having everything together, in one book/place, but it is really an overwhelming read if you try to do it in one go not exactly beach material.
I'll probably need several more reads before I can take in the finer points about strategy, the history of revolutions, aboveground vs.
underground groups and firewalls, etc, I read Deep Green Resistance because I was writing a story about an ecoterrorist group, and I wanted to know what those lunatics thought of themselves.

Stylistically, the book has few serious problems, It's obvious that the text was proofread, thoroughly thoughtout, and written by intelligent people,
But it's also a screed against technology, progress, and civilization itself, fueled by an idealization of primitive life combined with absurd compassion for every salmon and blade of grass.
Most of the facts are relentlessly cherrypicked, of course, We're told that human agriculture is responsible for the Sahara and Arabian deserts, and that climate change could exceed thirty degrees Fahrenheita figure climate scientists don't even accept as the worst case.

The rhetorical strategy is unsubtle: McBay et, al. construct an bleak image of the world, where civilization is irredeemable and western capitalists are responsible for every ill, and then present ecoterrorism as the only moral solution.
They're particularly fond of mentioning that two hundred species go extinct each day, in the hope that mindless rage on the reader's part will breed credulity.

Objectively, the Deep Green Resistance's a polished dumpster fire, Subjectively, I hated itI can't fathom how people will so readily throw away the technology, medicine, and science we have worked so hard to build over the millennia.
They foreclose any prospects for future greatness, for space exploration and immortality, green cities and artistic flourishing, in favor of simple, meek, unassuming subsistence among the ruins.

And there's the small fact that the Deep Green Resistance would inevitably kill most of humanity, The authors try to dodge the issue, but that just leads them to spout absurditiesapparently all of India's billionplus denizens can just go back to working the land, where they will support themselves without fertilizer or agricultural machines.
Right.
So, yeah, this book is ridiculous, and it uses halfbaked logic, shoddy research, and frenzied sentimentality to promote terrorism.
Take note, FBI: these are intelligent and dangerous people, We all change and evolve in our thinking over time, When I read this book years ago, it was formative and urgent, However, examining it with the knowledge I have now, my review has changed, This book is essential reading for anyone who's even remotely interested in what is happening to the planet we live on, what will happen in the coming years, and what needs to be done.
Regardless of occasionally heavy theoretical musings the text is never laborous, mainly because the points made are clarified and scrutinized in the light of past efforts in our culture of resistance, particularly during the pastyears.
The chapters are, apart from the main narrative, crammed full of enlightening facts and tidbits I was previously unaware of.
The writers' devotion and love for life shines through, and hopefully catches on in anyone who decides to pick up this book.
I picked up my secondhand copy by happenstance at the evertrustworthy English bookstore "Another Country" in Berlin, only to find out that since beginning ofit's been available at the Deep Green Resistance website as a free ebook.
So what're you waiting for Go and download it now! Thespecies that died into extinction today didn't have that chance, and tomorrow the servers might be sabotaged already.
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