I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time.

But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and here’s the definition we all came up with: hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.