The migrations of wild salmon over thousands of kilometres are an enduring mystery, writes Chris Todd - as are the reasons for a steep and alarming decline in salmon weight, fat and overall condition.
… Wild salmon starve at sea as North Atlantic warms … Comment Fishing Climate Change Natural World salmon-jumping.png The migrations of wild salmon over thousands of kilometres are an …
Who are we? We are the people who are ready to fight back, writes Derrick Jensen. The people who no longer live in hope that the Earth will be saved, but in the certainty that we will save her. We are activists, survivors, lovers and fighters. And we say: the destruction will stop.
… July 2015 Ethical Living Natural World coho-salmon-cut.jpg Who are we? We are the people … and who now with their permission speak for salmon, redwoods, rivers, voles, spotted owls. … to stop it. We are people who no longer hope salmon survive, but will do whatever it takes …
The ongoing battle between US tree-sitters and North America’s big logging firms pitches some of the world’s most determined activists against some of its most ruthless corporations. It is a battle that the tree-sitters simply must not lose.
… residents would be kept awake at night by salmon runs making their way up local creeks, … them upstream. Now it’s rare to see any salmon at all in the area. Activists and … Greece or, as today, spotted owls and coho salmon in America’s Pacific northwest and …
The idea of a 'good, or even great, Anthropocene' as promised in the Ecomodernist Manifesto is purely delusional, writes Derrick Jensen. Worse, it underlies a narrative in which the wholesale destruction of nature and of sustainable indigenous societies is repackaged as a noble mission - one whose ultimate purpose is the complete alienation of humans from the planet that spawned us.
… the place was a paradise. There were so many salmon in the rivers that the rivers were … the place). Of course humans affect the land. Salmon affect the land. Alder trees affect the … decisions that affected the land (just as do salmon, redwood trees, and everyone else), but …
True environmentalism is not about making our rapacious and destructive industrialism a little more sustainable, writes Derrick Jensen, but transforming humankind's relationship with Earth and the life she sustains - for us to take our true place within, and as part of, the living biosphere.
… as a herd thundered by. There were so many salmon in the Pacific Northwest you could hear … habitat on a living earth. And we love salmon and prairie dogs and black terns and …
Free trade. So benign sounding a phrase. A concept whose principles no reasonable person would challenge. Trouble is, free trade as we know it – free trade as it is pushed by those who will mass at Cancun, Mexico, in September – is far from free. Think about it. If it truly was free, would they put sanctions on those who don’t want to participate and use police to violently put down protests by those who oppose it? Free trade is really just a euphemism, like ‘peacekeeping’ or ‘forest management’, that hides a far uglier, more brutal reality. Free trade is a brand – Free Trade™, which sells a repackaged product no one in their right minds would buy if they knew what it really was.
… materials that the earth gives freely: the salmon, bison, huckleberries and willows, for … would I go to Safeway if I could catch wild salmon in the stream outside my door? The same …