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Giving Up on Environmentalism

Started this discussion. Last reply by Karen Barnacle Apr 29. 12 Replies

I was inspired by Paul's correspondence with Wen Stephenson of Thoreau Farm blog, relating to Paul's Orion article, to write the following blog post, which includes substantial extracts from Paul's…Continue

Tags: environmentalism, Orion, Kingsnorth, Paul

Reviews of Dark Mountain Issue 1?

Started this discussion. Last reply by Stranger Sep 22, 2011. 11 Replies

Not much online in the way of reviews of the first issue, and it's sad to see people like John Gray and George Monbiot accusing Mountaineers (unfairly I think) of a kind of present-day fiddling while…Continue

Loren Eiseley -- my Dark Mountain muse

Started this discussion. Last reply by Stranger Sep 22, 2011. 8 Replies

Loren Eiseley died in 1977. He was a scientist and humanist greatly alarmed at the accelerating destruction of our planet in the last century, and would, I am sure,have been horrified at the setbacks…Continue

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This is Why We're Here

Started this discussion. Last reply by Antonio Dias Jun 23, 2010. 2 Replies

Over the last couple of weeks there has been a flurry of attention in the blogosphere given to the Dark Mountain project. This has been accompanied by some criticism of what we're doing, of what…Continue

 

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Giving Up on Environmentalism

I was inspired by Paul's correspondence with Wen Stephenson of Thoreau Farm blog, relating to Paul's Orion article, to write the following blog post, which includes substantial extracts from Paul's letters to Wen, that to me really sum up what differentiates Dark Mountain from mainstream (and even radical) environmentalism. I think we have transcended the debate on environmentalism, and Paul's Orion article and his correspondence with Wen capture this so articulately I wanted to write about it…See More
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Dark Mountain Cascadia

A group for Dark Mountaineers in Cascadia - the temperate rain forest region of coastal North America and the adjacent inland regions, including Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, Idaho, northern California, southeast Alaska, and western Montana.
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"I have created a group for Dark Mountain Cascadia - http://uncivilisation.ning.com/group/dark-mountain-cascadia   Please feel free to join if you want to discuss local issues and events"
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Aug 13, 2011
L. S. Heatherly commented on Dave Pollard's blog post Derrick Jensen on "Unforgivable Art"
"....back into Earth's play Life." -- L. S. Heatherly (Yours Truly)   (this ending somehow got cut off from the rest.)"
Feb 12, 2011
Sonny Khan replied to Dave Pollard's discussion Reviews of Dark Mountain Issue 1?
"Great review.  I enjoyed the book because I enjoy stories, and that is what DM means to me, stories about our culture.  By exploring stories we begin to see the link between story and action, how the stories we choose to 'believe…"
Jan 3, 2011
Dave Pollard and Jeff Klenner are now friends
Oct 21, 2010
Antonio Dias replied to Dave Pollard's discussion Reviews of Dark Mountain Issue 1?
"Dave, Here Here! "
Sep 26, 2010
Jeffrey Newman replied to Dave Pollard's discussion Reviews of Dark Mountain Issue 1?
"Dave - Thanks so much for this. It is an illuminating, thoughtful, helpful and important contribution and now I have a vast amount to read on your web-site also...."
Sep 25, 2010
Jeffrey Newman replied to Dave Pollard's discussion Reviews of Dark Mountain Issue 1?
"I'm waiting for my copy of Dark Mountain to arrive, so I can't 'do a review' but this discussion in itself stimulates much thought. For me, the initiative, this site, the Project as a whole, since I came across it about a month…"
Sep 25, 2010
william methven replied to Dave Pollard's discussion Reviews of Dark Mountain Issue 1?
"Dave, I can't buy into your conviction that "our civilization is in its final century". How can you be so sure? Without doubt this century - more likely this decade - will see enormous and traumatic change. I hope much of this will…"
Sep 24, 2010
John Varady replied to Dave Pollard's discussion Loren Eiseley -- my Dark Mountain muse
"I discovered Eiseley while a UCLA grad student in ~1960, when I was too lazy to change stations and heard a woman reading 'The Bird & the Machine' from the Immense Journey. I immediately rushed out to buy it, and have read everything…"
Sep 14, 2010
Suzanne Duarte replied to Dave Pollard's discussion Loren Eiseley -- my Dark Mountain muse
"That's interesting and sad that Eiseley never had companion animals. I've lived with cats most of my life. I have two now, and the female also talks loudly to her toy mouse (stuffed with catnip) - but not only in the early morning before…"
Sep 12, 2010

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Tell us a bit about yourself. (You don't have to share anything you don't want to, but please write something here, so we know you're not a spam robot.)
Post-civ blogger (http://howtosavetheworld.ca/) writing a novel and film about human life after the crash: peaceful, sustainable, community-based, and astonishingly diverse
What drew you to the Dark Mountain Project?
Seems like the natural line of thinking to follow John Gray's book Straw Dogs, which you might want to mention in your manifesto. (Gray is also a Jeffers fan)

Trying to decide what to do now that I've retired from paid work and to some extent from civilization, and thinking it's about art and writing rather than activism.
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http://howtosavetheworld.ca/
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Derrick Jensen on "Unforgivable Art"

Posted on July 2, 2010 at 5:30 4 Comments

In the latest edition of Orion, Derrick Jensen writes:



I think often of a line by the psychiatrist R. D. Laing, “Few books today are forgivable.” He wrote this, I believe, because we have become so very alienated from our own experience, from who we are, and this alienation is so destructive to others and to ourselves that if a book does not…
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This is Why We're Here

Posted on June 15, 2010 at 8:30 3 Comments

(cartoon by Hugh Macleod from GapingVoid.com)



Like many of you, I was drawn to the Dark Mountain project by and Paul and Dougald's amazing Manifesto. I have recently come to realize that our civilization is beginning a collapse that will be complete by the end of this century, and no amount of technology, innovation,… Continue

What Happens Next: A Timeline for Civilizational Collapse

Posted on June 10, 2010 at 22:30 0 Comments

[I thought it might be useful for me to re-post an article I wrote last December, just as a synthesis of all the non-fiction writing I have read on how and when our civilization is likely to fall. Hope you find it interesting and relevant. I'm now moving on to more artistic work, since rhetorically I don't have much left to say. My next work will be a film called Travelogue:2200, which portrays post-civ societies as sustainable, community-based, joyful, leisurely, and (the opposite of… Continue

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At 9:13 on June 5, 2010, Glenn "Lee" Howden said…
Hi Dave, I would just like to encourage you to pursue imagining stories about positive possible outcomes. If you want to put these stories on film also you sure have your work cut out for you. Film and video media is very effective in portraying violence, drama and stupidity, but I don't know if stories about goodness, community and etc. can be presented in a compelling way on film. Prove me wrong please.

I skimmed your blog. Way to many words for this old handyman to want to plow through, but I did like the the descriptor “Doomer Porn”.

The book Ecotopia was no literary masterpiece, but it effected the lives of lots of people, and those people are out there quietly trying to do something.

The Pacific Northwest is an epicenter of new thought. I miss being there. [In my mind BC, Washington and Oregon are the Pacific Northwest] The Uncivilization festival brought me in contact with a lot of good people. I felt right at home there and my spirits were lifted considerably.
At 17:59 on June 7, 2010, Glenn "Lee" Howden said…
Here is some unsolicited information that I got from a link within a link provided by Dougald Hine. http://www.danbartlett.co.uk/sorenson.htm

Also there is a book called The Golden Grindstone about Canadian First Nation People. The best part is in the last part of the book. It might be hard to find. These peoples mastery of a difficult environment and their medical expertise blew me away.

I looked at clips from the film you mentioned and was heartened to see all the dancing. The writers and film makers I have met don't dance. In fact most musicians don't either. [This can be very frustrating for one that seeks release and connectivity through dance.] The exception to that is musicians that play in contra dance bands.
At 12:49 on December 26, 2010, rose said…
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(Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life)
At 5:15 on September 6, 2011, Roy Smith said…

I have created a group for Dark Mountain Cascadia - http://uncivilisation.ning.com/group/dark-mountain-cascadia

 

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