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Environmentalist: "The industrial economy needs to be stopped"
Christine G.K. LaPado
News
Review
Friday, Nov 13th, 2009
Derrick Jensen likes the word “fuck.”
A widely known Northern California environmentalist and author
of the provocative 2006 book-in-two-volumes Endgame, as well
as the earlier, critically acclaimed A Language Older Than Words
and The Culture of Make-Believe—Jensen was a Saturday
(Nov. 7) afternoon keynote speaker at Chico State’s recent
This Way to Sustainability V conference.
He was there in the BMU Auditorium to deliver a two-hour lecture
reiterating and elaborating upon the 20 premises of Endgame,
starting with Premise One: “Civilization is not and can
never be sustainable. This is especially true for industrial
civilization.”
Jensen wasn’t there to impress upon his audience how
much he likes the F-word, but unfortunately that’s what
some people may have taken away from his talk.
From using the word “motherfucker” in a opening
comment about the intentions of God, to telling a joke about
how many environmentalists it takes to change a light bulb (that
included a reference to “the fuckin’ light bulb”),
to his assertive announcement about an hour into his talk that,
“I think the word ‘fuck’ is the most amazing
word in the English language,” Jensen used language—in
a lecture open to the public, of all ages—that caused
some people to get up and leave.
It’s unfortunate, because Jensen is a brilliant thinker
with a lot to say about the “apocalyptic” state
of the world and how he’d like to see things change before
it’s too late.
Full
article here
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