END:CIV (2011)

Derrick Jensen: Self

Quotes 

• Derrick Jensen : It's stunning, how fast the destruction proceeds. Every day that passes, the world is in worse shape.

• Derrick Jensen : Industrial civilization - civilization itself, but especially industrial civilization - is not and can never be sustainable. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of life that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.

• Derrick Jensen : So one of the reasons why we don't see a lot of the violence, is because it's exported. Another reason we don't see a lot of the violence, is that we have been so metabolized into the system that we've bought into this strange notion that it's okay to have to pay to exist on the planet.

• Derrick Jensen : When people think about Iraq, what's the first thing they think about? Cedar forests so thick that sunlight never touches the ground? That's how it was, prior to the arrival of this culture.

• Derrick Jensen : My problem is not with somebody doing non-violent actions, it never has been. I say it all the time, that we need it all. My problem is that so many pacifists, especially in the United States, end up not supporting more radical and militant work.