Growing a Green New Deal: Agriculture’s Role in Economic Justice and Ecological Sustainability
By Fred Iutzi, Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
We focus here on two proposals for a Green New Deal that are politically viable today but also point us toward the deeper long-term change needed: (1) job training that could help repopulate the countryside and change how farmers work, and (2) research on perennial grain crops that could change how we farm.
Life Without Limits: The Delusions of Technological Fundamentalism
By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
This ideology of human supremacy leads us to believe that our species' cleverness allows us to ignore the limits placed on all life forms by the larger living world, of which we are but one component.
The Woman Beside Wendell Berry: The Most Important Fiction Editor Almost No One Has Heard Of
By Robert Jensen, YES! magazine
That’s the home Tanya Berry has made, in a rural community that endures—at least for now—because of people like her. Over those years, she has honed skills in farm work and the domestic arts, while serving as perhaps the most important fiction editor almost no one has heard of, married to one of the most important American writers almost everyone knows.
When Will the United States Transcend White Supremacy?
By Robert Jensen, Common Dreams
My question isn’t, “What should we do about the overt white supremacists who, emboldened by Trumpism’s success, have pushed their way back into mainstream politics?” I want to go beyond easy targets to ask, “When will U.S. society—not just neo-Nazis and the Klan, but the whole country—reject all aspects of white supremacist ideology and take serious steps toward rectifying the material inequality justified by that ideology?”
If You Want to Be Realistic, Be Radical
By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
Leftists are told that we have to be realistic, and I agree. But how realistic is it to expect solutions to human injustices and ecological crises to emerge from the systems that have created the problems? If you want to be realistic, get radical.
Beyond ‘No’ and the Limits of ‘Yes’: A Review of Naomi Klein’s ‘No Is Not Enough’
By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
In her new book, "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need", Klein reminds us to pay attention not only to the style in which Trump governs (a multi-ring circus so routinely corrupt and corrosive that anti-democratic practices seem normal) but in whose interests he governs (the wealthy, those he believes to be the rightful winners in the capitalist cage match)...
If We’re Honest, We All Know Trump’s America
By Robert Jensen, YES! magazine
When a local organizer for a new adult education project in Austin, Texas, asked me to teach a course on politics in January, it was tempting to focus on the potentially disastrous short-term consequences of the election. Instead, I decided to frame the course around the disastrous long-term forces that shape the contemporary United States, no matter who is in office.
What is the World? Who are We? What Are We Going to Do about It?
By Robert Jensen, Robert Jensen blog
Speaking of Creation encourages humility, reminding us of humans’ relatively small, albeit disproportionately destructive, place in that larger world.