If it's your purpose to overturn the Industrial Revolution, The Deep Green Resistance Book is what you need for the steps needed to do it. This goes beyond the level of Rockhouse activism but it could be interesting reading in terms of reducing mass consumerism. (DGR: The Deep Green Resistance Book)
Synopsis
Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can't fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won't stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Deep Green Resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful. It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruitment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and underground action*. Deep Green Resistance also discusses a culture of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play.
Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planet—and win.
Synopsis
Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can't fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won't stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Deep Green Resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful. It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruitment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and underground action*. Deep Green Resistance also discusses a culture of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play.
Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planet—and win.
There was no involvement between the Weathermen and I as bombing something isn't a method I regard as way toward solving a problem. The book goes up to guerrilla warfare and that makes it start sounding right wing insofar as the only way to deal with the Industrial Revolution and save the planet is to open combat. I won't be joining that platoon.
The book may have value for reading to review the steps they regard as necessary to save the planet and the book is specifically written to answer that. It's not my purpose to follow them but rather to discover what they are so it's possible to see the method and the intended result.
As we saw at Standing Rock, no-one in the resistance was armed and yet they seem to have achieved the saving of their water and their land. Today a pipeline broke down in North Dakota and there was an oil spill from it which is one of the precise reasons why the Indians do not want it anywhere near their water.
There is no 'wink, wink' regarding any aversion to violent conflict as the regulars know I couldn't do it anyway and it's not my purpose to instigate anything. In any meeting, my first question was, "What problem are we trying to solve?"
In this case, the problem is the Industrial Revolution; therefore, take it down. That's the part about which I'm curious since I wonder what they believe would come at that point other than economic collapse and tremendous hardship.
There's no disagreement with the fundamental problem of out-of-control consumerism but I don't see any consequence of blowing up some factory to make Justin Bieber puppets other than running up the cost of them. In short, removing the source, just as with narcotics, etc, doesn't reduce the demand. Therefore, expectations need to change and that's not a physical problem.
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