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Let Us Become the Responsive Species Carsten Jensen

Carsten Jensen — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:30:45 +0000

The elephant doesn’t dream of a trunk the length of a fire hose. The blue whale doesn’t want to become a kilometre long. Bigger isn’t always better. Nature knows boundaries: humans don’t. It is our sick dream of eternal, relentless growth that has set us on a collision course with nature. Not only are [...]

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Where is Climate’s Winston Churchill?Carsten Jensen

Carsten Jensen — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:49:01 +0000

Imagine that during the London blitz, the British debated whether the country was at war with Germany. Imagine that some peoples’ response was this: “History is full of wars, so this is nothing special. This kind of thing happens all the time.” Imagine others saying: “Sure, a bomb lands from time to time, but [...]

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A Citizen’s ArrestCarsten Jensen

Carsten Jensen — Thu, 12 May 2022 07:00:18 +0000

“What if I got to jail?” I thought, when Extinction Rebellion Denmark asked me to speak at the opening of its week of protest. Because this is the point we’ve reached: the point where states come down more heavily on climate protest than on tax evasion. When he was jailed for his role in [...]

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The last speech I gave before I became a criminalCarsten Jensen

Carsten Jensen — Mon, 09 May 2022 09:52:25 +0000

If you think you can live the way you have always lived, you are wrong. If you think your kids will have a life like yours, you are wrong. If you think politicians have a bigger horizon than the next election, you are wrong. If you think that the problems you don’t solve [...]

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