Jul 29The Dual Population Problem: People and Thingshttps://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/28/dual-population-problem-people-and-things by Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen [This essay is adapted from An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity.] As we careen from one crisis to the next, focused on political struggles that seem to rarely produce even short-term solutions, it’s easy to avoid big…Ecology6 min read
Jul 28We Are One Specieshttps://www.counterpunch.org/2022/07/28/we-are-one-species/ by Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen [This essay is adapted from An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity.] The world is a mess, in both social and ecological terms, mired in unjust and unsustainable systems. Responsibility for this condition is not shared equally. Powerful…Ecology7 min read
Jul 22A portrait of the artist as an old man: Wes Jackson in conversation with Robert JensenBy Robert Jensen and Wes Jackson Published in The Ecological Citizen · July, 2022 Vol 5 No 2 2022 | Pages 160–166 https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/article.php?t=portrait-artist-as-old-man-wes-jackson-conversation-robert-jensen Wes Jackson and I spent a good part of 2019–20 working on two books — his collection of stories titled Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land…Art20 min read
Jul 22Why Is This Not Enough?By Robert Jensen and Wes Jackson Published in Merion West · July, 2022 https://merionwest.com/2022/07/18/why-is-this-not-enough/ [This essay is adapted from An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity, to be published by the University of Notre Dame Press in September 2022. https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268203665/an-inconvenient-apocalypse/] One of the universal characteristics…Ecology4 min read
May 28Men and feminism: Do your own thing and do the right thinghttps://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/men-and-feminism-kpkn/ by Robert Jensen The Good Men Project / May 25, 2022 People who “do the right thing” are praised for being selfless. People who “do their own thing” are often seen as selfish. Many choices we face, especially in the worlds of business and pleasure, seem to set these…Feminism8 min read
Apr 26“Methodism to My Madness”: A “Podcast from the Prairie” Conversation with Wes Jacksonhttps://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-03-23/wes-jackson-methodism-to-my-madness-a-podcast-from-the-prairie-conversation/ by Robert Jensen Resilience.org, March 23, 2022 Wes Jackson and I spent a good part of 2019–20 working on two books — his collection of stories titled Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions and my The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson: Searching for Sustainability…Ecology23 min read
Apr 26Earth Day: Enemies and Opportunitieshttps://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/19/earth-day-enemies-and-opportunities by Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen In a 1970 poster for the first Earth Day and a cartoon the following year, Walt Kelly’s Pogo offered a hard truth about ecological crises: “We have met the enemy and he is us.” That doesn’t mean there are no differences in individuals’…Ecology4 min read
Feb 21Take Nobody’s Word for It: A Conversation with Wes Jacksonhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/article/take-nobodys-word-for-it-a-conversation-with-wes-jackson/ February 20, 2022 • By Robert Jensen WES JACKSON’S DISTINCTIVE CONTRIBUTION to a sustainable agriculture — the idea of perennial grains grown in mixtures — has been recognized with a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pew Conservation Scholars award, and the Right Livelihood Award. He co-founded and then for four decades…Science16 min read
Feb 18Interview: 10 Questions for Radical Feminist Robert Jensenhttps://counter-currents.com/2022/02/10-questions-for-radical-feminist-robert-jensen/ by Hubert Collins / Counter-Currents / February 18, 2022 Robert Jensen is an archetypal Leftist academic: a feminist, an anti-capitalist, an anti-imperialist, and someone who believes in institutional racism. He was denouncing “white privilege” well before doing so became fashionable, and his feminism is of the radical variety, at…Feminism15 min read
Feb 5A Practical Radical Politicshttps://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/04/a-practical-radical-politics/ by Robert Jensen / February 4, 2022 We need to be practical when it comes to politics, to work for policies that we can enact today, inadequate though they may be to answer calls for social justice and ecological sustainability. We also need to maintain a relentlessly radical analysis…Sustainability32 min read
