Word: jensenism
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...hippie grandparent whose children are pushing their girls to achieve and who still just expect the boys to do well. Does this mean I'm a misogynist or a feminist? Greg Jensen, Euless, Texas...
...Hippie grandparent whose children are pushing their girls to achieve and who still just expect the boys to do well. Does this mean I'm a misogynist or a feminist? Greg Jensen, EULESS, TEXAS...
...thing, Jensen willfully ignores many improvements and ambiguities in measures of environmental health: Air quality in the States has improved over the last 30 years, the release of toxic chemicals into the environment has dropped, and scientists have never been able to reliably measure water quality. His theory instead relies on the arrogant assumption that “civilization”—the product of billions of individuals’ decisions and actions—can be boiled down to one big apocalyptic bang...
...even if he were correct, there isn’t much here for the well-meaning environmentalist. Jensen has nothing good to say about the ideals of the moderate green movement, of which Saskatoon can boast a strong contingent. The city, home to a large public university, is chock-full of organic-buying, bottle-recycling, hip-dressing young activists (alongside the more conservative SUV-drivers). Many of them are engaged in projects that focus on empowering individuals to make small green changes in their lives—the Saskatchewan Environmental Society, for example, provides homeowners with information about pesticide alternatives...
...several hundred environmentalists turn out to listen to a man who calls “mainstream” efforts to achieve sustainability “pure masturbation”? In many cases, people were just curious. Others found in Jensen a reflection of their own discontentment: As Quigley wrote me in an e-mail, “The strange thing about Derrick Jensen is that, although I think he’s extreme and totally disagree with some of what he says, hearing what he has to say still makes me want to go live in a forest someplace...