Endgame, Volume 2 by Derrick Jensen

Author:Derrick Jensen [Jensen, Derrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2010-05-27T04:00:00+00:00

WHY CIVILIZATION IS KILLING THE WORLD, TAKE TWENTY-FOUR. It’s not just oil companies. It’s the whole damned culture. Here is a headline from today’s San Francisco Chronicle: “Ecuador free-for-all threatens tribes, trees: Weak government lets loggers prevail.” You can guess the content. In case you can’t, one sentence is all it takes to make it clear: “The Ecuadoran rain forest has long attracted rubber-tappers, oil companies and timber concerns backed by a federal government eager to exploit the natural riches of the Amazon.”243 The government is strong when it comes to backing corporations, and weak when it comes to stopping them. If corporations are going to be stopped from destroying the world, it is up to us to stop them.

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