"WHAT WOULD YOU LIVE AND DIE TO PROTECT?"

[Panaconda]

Life vs. Productivity: "What Would You Live and Die to Protect?"
Sunday 05 September 2010
by Dahr Jamail

"It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself, when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks." -Malcolm X


People in Louisiana expressing their feelings about the BP oil disaster. (Photo: Erika Blumenfeld © 2010)

If someone broke into your house, pinned down your loved ones and began pouring poison down their throats, would you stop that person?

What if someone poured crude oil all over your crops and livestock? Wouldn't you try to stop them from doing it?


Oyster beds soaked in BP oil. (Photo: Erika Blumenfeld © 2010)

Pointed questions like these come from a man named Derrick Jensen. They provide a lens through which to view the havoc that corporate capitalism is wreaking on our planet. They are meant to jolt us into the awareness that we are watching life on earth annihilated. They are also meant to challenge us into thinking about what form our resistance to this should take.

"I think what we need to do is to stop deluding ourselves into believing that those in power will do what they have not done and they've shown no inclination to do, which is to support life over production," says Jensen, an author and environmental activist who lives in Northern California.

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http://www.truth-out.org/life-vs-productivity-what-would-you-live-and-die-protect62946

[Forkboy]

1. "The ghost of Edward Abbey says to me...."

I know what's right
I know what's wrong
What would you do if someone was strangling your mother...just stand there?
Well, someone is

I know what's wrong
The disruption of destruction is not violence
It's self-defense
I know what's right
The ghost of Edward Abbey says to me, "You're never a product of their world unless you want to be."

[TBF]

2. Recommended. nt

[BrklynLiberal]

3. A thought provoking article. thanks.

[Panaconda]

5. Welcome

Thought it was exactly as you stated- thought provoking.

[glitch]

4. Thank you for posting Jensen, and welcome to DU! K & R nt