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A review by jefecarpenter
Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It by Derrick Jensen
4.0
Two-thirds of this book is important information that scientifically shows that achieving even the most complete version of "clean energy" planned will not be able to carry the load, will not reduce the carbon emissions anywhere near where we need to go. We are in big trouble, in so many different ways. This is a vitally important reckoning.
But, interwoven with this reckoning, the other one-third of the book laments the loss of wildlife, and nature sanctuaries, proposing for us to stop farming, and return to some sort of (un-defined) pre-agricultural civilization. It doesn't address our audience: a society based on military industrial capitalism in a feeding frenzy.
It's a shame to see the crucial value of this book kneecapped by its own authors. How could they have let this happen? In the first few chapters, I was recommending this book to everyone, all the time... but by the end I stopped mentioning it to anyone.
But, interwoven with this reckoning, the other one-third of the book laments the loss of wildlife, and nature sanctuaries, proposing for us to stop farming, and return to some sort of (un-defined) pre-agricultural civilization. It doesn't address our audience: a society based on military industrial capitalism in a feeding frenzy.
It's a shame to see the crucial value of this book kneecapped by its own authors. How could they have let this happen? In the first few chapters, I was recommending this book to everyone, all the time... but by the end I stopped mentioning it to anyone.