A review by miguelf
Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It by Derrick Jensen

1.0

Really had a visceral dislike of this book throughout even when many of the points resonated with me because in each and every case there is such a disconnect with the reality on the ground as it pertains to our relationship to energy use and its future. Without large scale human die-offs we're not going to see any of the ideas promulgated here realized and the vast majority cannot and don't want to live as our ancestors did several millennia ago. The authors are also completely dishonest when it comes to the technology - either that or the book is hopelessly outdated. While I'm not a dedicated techno-optimist there are credible paths to get to net zero and while I would otherwise also decry what modern society has become, I'm not so naïve as to think that any of the potential paths laid out here by these authors would ever come to pass, or if they do it's going to be compounded by the suffering that hasn't been seen since the cultural revolution in China or WWII.