Keyword: Derrick Jensen

Industrial capitalism is a given and the natural world is secondary Email Print

Melissa Gragg and Jason Miller interview Derrick Jensen

11/8/08

"Top priorities may not be any of those five. It may be continuing to stabilize the financial system. We don't know yet what's going to happen in January. And none of this can be accomplished if we continue to see a potential meltdown in the banking system or the financial system. So that's priority number one, making sure that the plumbing works in our capitalist system."

--President-Elect Barack Obama

Ironically, it is the plumbing of that capitalist system that we are using as we flush the future of life on Earth down the toilet.

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