Robert Jensen is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin and collaborates with the New Perennials Project at Middlebury College. He is the author of It’s Debatable: Talking Authentically about Tricky Topics, coming this spring from Olive Branch Press. This essay is adapted from his book An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity, co-authored with Wes Jackson.
Why I Don’t Rely on Hope
Get up in the morning, day after day, try to find something worth doing, and then do it as well as possible, realizing that failure will be routine but that small successes—sometimes really small, maybe even too small to see in the moment—make it possible to continue.
March 7, 2024
An Inconvenient Apocalypse with Bob Jensen (Bonus episode of Crazy Town)
Bob Jensen has written a book with Wes Jackson titled An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity. With a title like that, Jason and Bob have lots of heavy ground to cover, including overshoot, the limits to growth, and the cascading environmental and social crises of our times.
January 12, 2023
Truths We Can’t Bear Alone: Facing an ‘Inconvenient Apocalypse’
In the face of multiple cascading crises, we have to tell as much of the truth as one can bear, then a little more, and then all the rest of the truth, whether one can bear it or not.
October 6, 2022
The Politics of Overconsumption and Getting the Scale Right
No matter how difficult the transition may be, in the not too distant future we will have to live in far smaller and more flexible social organizations than today’s nation-states and cities.
October 3, 2022
Knowledge versus Ignorance: The Limited Scope of Human Competence
We need to be better students of the exits so that when things go wrong, as they always do and always will, we can find our way out.
August 18, 2022
An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Excerpt
All organisms adapt to, and are shaped by, their places. There is no reason that humans should be exempt from that observation.
July 28, 2022
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