{"id":60363,"date":"2021-11-09T07:33:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T12:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60363"},"modified":"2021-11-09T07:33:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T12:33:11","slug":"beyond-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60363","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image article-hero\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/orionmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/beyondhopetitle.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1454px) 100vw, 1454px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orionmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/beyondhopetitle.jpg 1454w, https:\/\/orionmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/beyondhopetitle-336x287.jpg 336w, https:\/\/orionmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/beyondhopetitle-768x655.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orionmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/beyondhopetitle-771x658.jpg 771w, https:\/\/orionmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/beyondhopetitle-600x512.jpg 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1454\" height=\"1240\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<header>\n<div class=\"byline bylined\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orionmagazine.org\/contributor\/derrick-jensen\/\">DERRICK JENSEN<\/a><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orionmagazine.org\/article\/beyond-hope\/\">Beyond Hope<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"run-in\"><strong><span class=\"drop-cap\">T<\/span>HE\u00a0<\/strong><strong>MOST COMMON WORDS<\/strong>\u00a0I hear spoken by any environmentalists anywhere are,\u00a0<i>We\u2019re fucked.<\/i>\u00a0Most of these environmentalists are fighting desperately, using whatever tools they have \u2014 or rather whatever legal tools they have, which means whatever tools those in power grant them the right to use, which means whatever tools will be ultimately ineffective \u2014 to try to protect some piece of ground, to try to stop the manufacture or release of poisons, to try to stop civilized humans from tormenting some group of plants or animals. Sometimes they\u2019re reduced to trying to protect just one tree.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how John Osborn, an extraordinary activist and friend, sums up his reasons for doing the work: \u201cAs things become increasingly chaotic, I want to make sure some doors remain open. If grizzly bears are still alive in twenty, thirty, and forty years, they may still be alive in fifty. If they\u2019re gone in twenty, they\u2019ll be gone forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But no matter what environmentalists do, our best efforts are insufficient. We\u2019re losing badly, on every front. Those in power are hell-bent on destroying the planet, and most people don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I don\u2019t have much hope. But I think that\u2019s a good thing. Hope is what keeps us chained to the system, the conglomerate of people and ideas and ideals that is causing the destruction of the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>To start, there is the false hope that suddenly somehow the system may inexplicably change. Or technology will save us. Or the Great Mother. Or beings from Alpha Centauri. Or Jesus Christ. Or Santa Claus. All of these false hopes lead to inaction, or at least to ineffectiveness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DERRICK JENSEN Beyond Hope THE\u00a0MOST COMMON WORDS\u00a0I hear spoken by any environmentalists anywhere are,\u00a0We\u2019re fucked.\u00a0Most of these environmentalists are fighting desperately, using whatever tools they have \u2014 or rather whatever legal tools they have, which means whatever tools those in power grant them the right to use, which means whatever tools will be ultimately ineffective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10136,4012,2057,32123],"class_list":["post-60363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-derrick-jensen","tag-environmentalism","tag-hope","tag-orion-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60364,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60363\/revisions\/60364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}