Deep Green Resistance

Deep Green Resistance
Founded	2011
Founder	Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Aric McBay
Focus	Environmental justice, Social justice
Location	USA;
Method	Direct action, education
Website	deepgreenresistance.org

Deep Green Resistance (DGR) is a radical environmental movement that views mainstream environmental activism as being ineffective. The group, which perceives the existence of industrial civilization itself as the greatest threat to the natural environment,^[1] strives for community organizing to build alternative food, housing, and medical institutions.^[2] The organization advocates sabotage against infrastructure,^[3] which it views as necessary tactics to achieve its goal of dismantling industrial civilization. Religious and ecological scholar Todd LeVasseur classifies it as an apocalyptic or millenarian movement.^[4]

^ McBay, Aric, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen. 2011. Deep Green Resistance. New York: Seven Stories Press.
^ "About Us". Deep Green Resistance. 2022.
^ "Radical environmentalism: 'We need to be ready to risk our lives' - Prolific activist Derrick Jensen talks to DW about ending civilization, returning to hunter-gatherer times and why extreme action shouldn't mean ecoterrorism". Deutsche Welle. 6 September 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
^ LeVasseur, Todd (2017). "Decisive Ecological Warfare: Triggering Industrial Collapse via Deep Green Resistance". Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. 11 (1): 109–130. doi:10.1558/jsrnc.29799. ISSN 1749-4915. Abstract - Deep Green Resistance (or DGR) is a US-based radical environmental group that calls for 'decisive ecological warfare' (DEW) that is motivated by naturalistic forms of nature spirituality and biocentric moral sentiments. Exceptionally militant, its advocates champion both aboveground and underground resistance to industrial capitalism, viewing sabotage and violence as a necessary tactic, grounding its views in both apocalyptic and millennial themes. To understand this movement, one must apprehend the ways its ecological, political, and spiritual understandings blend in ways that justify its advocacy of extreme means of ecological resistance.

[McBay-1] McBay, Aric, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen. 2011. Deep Green Resistance. New York: Seven Stories Press.

[2] "About Us". Deep Green Resistance. 2022.

[3] "Radical environmentalism: 'We need to be ready to risk our lives' - Prolific activist Derrick Jensen talks to DW about ending civilization, returning to hunter-gatherer times and why extreme action shouldn't mean ecoterrorism". Deutsche Welle. 6 September 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2022.

[LeVasseur-4] LeVasseur, Todd (2017). "Decisive Ecological Warfare: Triggering Industrial Collapse via Deep Green Resistance". Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. 11 (1): 109–130. doi:10.1558/jsrnc.29799. ISSN 1749-4915. Abstract - Deep Green Resistance (or DGR) is a US-based radical environmental group that calls for 'decisive ecological warfare' (DEW) that is motivated by naturalistic forms of nature spirituality and biocentric moral sentiments. Exceptionally militant, its advocates champion both aboveground and underground resistance to industrial capitalism, viewing sabotage and violence as a necessary tactic, grounding its views in both apocalyptic and millennial themes. To understand this movement, one must apprehend the ways its ecological, political, and spiritual understandings blend in ways that justify its advocacy of extreme means of ecological resistance.

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