derrick jensen

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</div><div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Tactics</h2>The Deep Green perspective argues that the dominant culture, a term that encompasses all the cultures within globalized civilization, will not undergo a voluntary transformation to a sustainable way of living. This includes the dismissal of a possible success of a slow and soft shift to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability" title="Sustainability" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">sustainability</a>. Members of the Deep Green movement believe that industrial civilization will inevitably collapse. This notion is based on historical examples of the collapse of major civilizations such as Rome or the Mayan civilization, and statistics regarding the current system's unsustainability. DGR maintains that humans must act decisively before the collapse to ensure the Earth that remains is inhabitable for all organisms and that humans build a more sustainably structured society following the collapse.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-McBay-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a>Deep Green Resistance supports an active resistance movement with the objective of accelerating the collapse of industrial civilization.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">citation needed</a>]Within the Deep Green theory, lifestyle or personal changes are not considered effective methods of creating meaningful change. The mainstream environmental movement is seen as being distracted by its emphasis on individual lifestyle changes and technological solutions instead of confronting systems of power and holding individuals, industries, and institutions accountable.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> The founders of the Deep Green movement view technological solutions, no matter how well-intentioned, as unsatisfactory and warn that they could even lead to accelerated ecological destruction and pollution.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-McBay-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><h3 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Advocating for militant resistance</h3>Decisive Ecological Warfare:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-DGRDEW-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a><blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;">Well-organized underground militants would make coordinated attacks on energy infrastructure around the world … actions against pipelines, power lines, tankers, and refineries, perhaps using electromagnetic pulses. ….<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-C.26C-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></blockquote>Proponents of Deep Green Resistance encourage strategies for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_action" class="mw-redirect" title="Social action" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">social action</a> that range from violent to non-violent. DGR's support for militant action (described as a potentially necessary means by which to invoke drastic environmental change) is rejected by many <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifist" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacifist" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">pacifists</a>. Some have called this a potential deterrent to environmentalists who believe in nonviolent activism.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> The strategy described by Jensen, McBay and Keith largely centers around hard-hitting infrastructural sabotage, such as forcible <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_removal" title="Dam removal" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">dam removal</a>, rather than any kind of personal violence.Jensen predicts, regarding the movement, that acts of personal violence in the future will be almost completely offensive by those countering the resistance movement (i.e. those currently in power) and self-defensive by those enacting the resistance movement. When asked, "If we dismantle civilization, won't that kill millions of people in cities? What about them?," Jensen has responded that "No matter what you do, your hands will be blood red... because the global economy is [already] murdering humans and non-humans the planet over...." and "As this culture continues to collapse, those who are doing the exploiting will continue.... Don’t blame those who want to stop that exploitation. Instead, help to stop the exploitation that is killing people in the first place."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a> Jensen has also clarified such ideas on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Now!" title="Democracy Now!" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democracy Now!</a>: "I get accused of being the 'violence guy'... but I don’t ever think that's really fair, because I really consider myself the 'everything guy', that I want to put everything on the table and talk about all forms of resistance.... We can certainly parse out cases where we think it's appropriate to have militant response or non-militant response."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-DN112610-10" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a>Keith has discussed in depth the "complexity of the issue of violence" in the organization's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eponymous" class="mw-redirect" title="Eponymous" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">eponymous</a> book, and how it is "understandable that people who care about justice want to reject violence; many of us are survivors of it." However, she urges the following distinctions, favoring only the second in each dichotomy: "the violence of hierarchy vs. the violence of self-defense, violence against actual people vs. violence against property, and the [use of] violence as self-actualization vs. the violence of political resistance. It is difficult to find someone who is against all of these."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-McBay-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a>While Deep Green Resistance maintains that it is a strictly aboveground movement, Keith and McBay have openly encouraged an additional element of underground action, and DGR provides the theoretical and aboveground framework to support such action.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a> The organization's book points to historical examples of resistance movements that relied on an interdependence between aboveground and underground networks in order to accomplish mutual goals.</div>