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Civilization can never be sustainable.

- Derrick Jensen
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I get asked quite often if I'm an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that's fine. What is most important to me is to live in a world that is not being murdered.

I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.

My audience consists mainly of people who already recognize how bad this culture is, and I want to push them to become more radical. It doesn't really matter to me if they are Left or Right.

If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you're going to take the resource.

People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of the ability to steal from the poor and depriving the powerful of the ability to destroy the planet. That's what I really mean.

Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.

My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home.

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Civilization can never be sustainable.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Civilization can never be sustainable.