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Bright Green Lies

How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It

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Bright Green Lies

By: Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert
Narrated by: Joel Richards
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"This disturbing but very important book makes clear we must dig deeper than the normal solutions we are offered." (Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia Works)

Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but instead indulge in a mendacious and self-serving delusion that provides comfort at the expense of reality. They fail to state the obvious: We cannot continue to wallow in hedonistic consumption and industrial expansion and survive as a species.

The environmental debate, Derrick Jensen and his coauthors argue, has been distorted by hubris and the childish desire by those in industrialized nations to sustain the unsustainable. All debates about environmental policy need to begin with honoring and protecting, not the desires of the human species, but with the sanctity of the Earth itself. We refuse to ask the right questions because these questions expose a stark truth - we cannot continue to live as we are living. To do so is suicidal folly.

©2021 Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert (P)2021 Tantor Ecology Environment Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Politics & Government Science Conservation Natural Resource Green Politics
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If a livable planet is your concern, this book is indispensable. Yet, it might make you uncomfortable by confronting the illusive hopes you may have had. Then remember: The most dangerous thing, is a comfortable lie, when countless lives are at stake.

This book reveals the deceptive nature of these lies, which enables you to understand the underlying mechanisms of the polycrisis. Only then you can act the right way on the root cause of our predicament. So you can destroy what really destroys life on earth, and support what really supports life on earth.

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13 chapters of criticism, most warranted, but I wanted to know solutions. This is a very American, white, centric viewpoint. No mention of the majority of the planet, no mention on how we feed the planet. I was severely dissapointed. I live in a developing country, absolutely no help in this book for me or my fellow citizens.

Big On Criticism Tiny On Solutions.

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