A Poem Based on an Interview With Derrick Jensen

An image I created based on a photo of my shadow.

This is My Planet Too

Poem based on an Interview with Derrick Jensen.

Impending collapse

car culture running out of oil

nowhere to retreat

living in an abstract society

few have real life skills

are we doomed?

Collective denial

environmental crisis

on the news we hear instead

latest fashion

celebrity gossip

corporations control the planet

and you want to talk about sports?

Culture based on destroying the land

culture based on using up non renewable resources

culture based on a lie

the earth is a finite place

a life based on infinite resources cannot last

and you sit here watching a "reality" show

did you learn about reality?

The system is rigged against those who love the land

against those who care about future life

when environmentalists use an existing law to stop the destruction

the laws are changed by those in power

what meaning are laws if they are changed when convenient?

we live in a destructive culture

we live in a blind culture

to quiet us they feed us bright green lies

telling us solar panels and windmills

will bring relief to the environmental crisis

Did you see the open pit mine?

We will need more of those pits in order to build the structures

blow up all the mountains to sake your thirst for power

is that better than a polluted sky?

do you like the world better without its surface beauty?

do you like the taste of contaminated water?

If you lived on your own planet I wouldn't care

but this is my planet, too

there are trees, bees, butterflies

flowers, birds, elephants

do all the living things need to sacrifice their home

so you can turn on your lights?

We have to stop killing the planet

We have to find another way to live

or we won't be living at all.

Copyright Desert Dreamer

"Civilization and Other Hazards"

"Because of its drive toward war, ecological destructiveness, and perpetual expansion in a finite world, the history of civilizations is defined by collapse.  Throughout history, civilizations have either collapsed or been conquered, the conquerors going on to meet one of both of those fates.  Collapse is the typical, not the exceptional, outcome for a civilization"
     ~Aric McBay "Deep Green Resistance"


"As a means of enforcing hierarchy and regulation, civilization also makes major investments in monumental architecture and propaganda.  Past civilizations had pyramids, coliseums, and vast military marches to impress or cow their populations.  Although modern civilizations still have monumental architecture (especially in the form of superstores and megamalls), the wealthier human population is immersed in virtual architecture - a twenty-four-hour digital spectacle of noise and propaganda."
     ~Aric McBay "Deep Green Resistance"


"civilization perpetuates itself by producing deliberate conditions of scarcity and deprivation."
     ~Aric McBay "Deep Green Resistance"


"Cheap oil undergirds every aspect of industrial society.  Without oil, industrial farms couldn't grow food, consumer goods couldn't be transported globally, and superpowers coudn't wage war on distant countries.  Peak oil is already causing disruption in societies around the world, with cascading effects on everything from food production to the global economy."
     ~Aric McBay "Deep Green Resistance"