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Title: Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests (Politics of the Living) by Derrick Jensen, George Draffan ISBN: 1-931498-45-8 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent handbook for forest education!!!
Comment: I am impressed with how concise, clear, and well researched this book is. I have bought it for all of my friends and I recommend it to forest activists everywhere. This book covers the worldwide forest crisis and how that impacts everyone from the most endangered species to the drinking water in your home. It also covers the entire history of deforestation from the rise of civilization in the Middle East through the present day. The authors' directness and honesty are refreshing. Most writers who pretend to be confronting these problems shy away from spelling out the connections between the corporations and those in government that not only allow but also encourage the destruction to continue. Thank you Jensen and Draffan for this beautifully written tool for forest education!
Rating: 1
Summary: I've had better.
Comment: I hated this book. While reading through it, I often had to put it down for a moment because it was so frustrating to me. The book is a giant rant from two very angry and disconcerted environmentalists. Their anger is directed towards 'they' and 'them' - the bad guys of the BLM and US Forest Service. Quite often there is name-calling, sarcasm and bad language. I found this unprofessional and, more importantly, extremely distracting. I sympathize with the authors' frustration, but accusing senators of genocide(71), using the 'f' word(63), oversimplifying through what reads like a child's tantrum ("Life doesn't matter.")(68), and blowing off progressive programs already in action by other organizations such as the EPA ("Big deal. People continue to get poisoned.")(127), are all things that don't work to get yourself taken very seriously as an author.
Perhaps the authors' laid-back style of writing is what makes their book so appealing to others. Maybe some readers find it easy to relate to the authors' negative feelings and exasperation. While I admire how thoroughly the book appears to have been researched, and while I enjoyed the up-to-date facts and figures, I thought the book could have greatly improved with increased structure, more focus, less careless accusations tossed around(73!), and better solutions proposed. It doesn't seem right that the authors have even wrote this book, griping about how other organizations aren't performing up to their expectations, yet not offering up any solutions of their own without being extremely vague and only restating what has already been suggested by others before them.
Rating: 5
Summary: Global Chainsaw Massacre
Comment: A concisely worded, hard-hitting, well-researched book, Strangely Like War reveals the obscured and absurd connection between rabid consumption, relentlessly extractive industrial forestry, and the consequent genocide of those who are pushed from the land to which they belong. Already well-versed in this subject, authors Draffan and Jensen have provided us with a sobering expose of global deforestation, the political corruption that aids and abets it, and a stirring portrait of various indigenous peoples who have suffered (and still suffer) genocide as a result. Arguing from a position outside strict environmentalism, Strangely Like War levels a broader critique of globalization: "this parasitic, monetized, commodity-driven, inequitable, monocultural socioeconomic system", sometimes referred to simply as Western Civilization (altho geography no longer has anything to do with it). Along side everything else Jensen has every written, this book is a soulfully critical masterpiece that should not be overlooked.
A MUST READ
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Title: Listening to the Land by Derrick Jensen ISBN: 1893956253 Publisher: Context Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution by Derrick Jensen ISBN: 1931498482 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company Pub. Date: April, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen ISBN: 1893956288 Publisher: Context Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Other Side of Darkness by Derrick Jensen ISBN: 1931498598 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing by Robert Wolff, Thom Hartmann ISBN: 0892818662 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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