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Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests

Derrick Jensen

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

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Title	:	Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests
Author	:	Derrick Jensen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2003 by Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Environment. Biology. Ecology. Nature. Politics. Social Issues. Activism

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Derrick Jensen, prize-winning author of "A Language Older than Words" and "The Culture of Make Believe," and George Draffan, activist, researcher, and co-author with Jensen of "Railroads & Clearcuts," collaborate again to expose the escalating global war on trees. Ever since Gilgamesh cut down the ancient cedar forests of Mesopotamia, civilizations and empires have foundered and collapsed in the wake of widespread deforestation. Today, with three quarters of the world's original forests gone and the pace of cutting, clearing, processing, and pulping ever accelerating, Jensen and Draffan lay bare the stark scenario we face--we being not only people, but the nonhuman fabric of life itself--unless deforestation is slowed and stopped. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the relationship between deforestation and our ecological crisis as well as an essential "handbook" for forest and anti-globalization activists.

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Original Title:	Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests (Politics of the Living)
ISBN:	1931498458 (ISBN13: 9781931498456)
Edition Language:	English

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A wonderful overview of just how unsustainable our current forestry practices are. However, it lacks the depth of most other Jensen books. However, this isn't nearly as dark as some of his other writing, so a good introduction to the author.

this addition to the Jensen/Draffan collection is a decent compendium of facts and arguments about the perils of multi-national, industrial forestry. of particular interest is the time the authors spend discussing the continuing threat to old-growth forests in bc which are some of the last remaining forests of their age in north america. if you are familiar with the struggle to save the forests there will be little new in this book, but it is a good review of the arguments against multi-national

Worth reading. Very depressing. Very informative. In sum: if you live in the first world (hahaha...), especially if you're white and holding some money, then you live on an island surrounded by seas of destruction, most of which keep your island afloat. No real news there, but Jensen lays out the hows and whys with excruciating, and rousing, effect.

Loved the first 8 chapters - the rest, not as much. This book seems to be before Derrick really embraced his full anti-civilization message - there is a lot of discussion of recycling and other incremental improvements.

Derrick Jensen is an American author and environmental activist living in Crescent City, California. He has published several books questioning and critiquing contemporary society and its values, including A Language Older Than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, and Endgame. He holds a B.S. in Mineral Engineering Physics from the Colorado School of Mines and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from

This is a pretty interesting book about a pretty boring subject (or else a pretty boring book about a pretty interesting subject). Either way, it's true that the world's forests are in crisis and the current system is doing absolutely nothing to help them. But Jensen is pretty radical and I don't know if his solutions are even remotely realistic.

there's some interesting stuff here, but it'd be better to just skip it and stick to Jensen's central trilogy (Language Older Than Words, Culture Of Make Believe, and Endgame)