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Title:Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests
Author:Derrick Jensen
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 160 pages
Published:October 1st 2003 by Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Categories:Nonfiction. Environment. Biology. Ecology. Nature. Politics. Social Issues. Activism
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Derrick Jensen, prize-winning author of "A Language Older than Words" and "The Culture of Make Believe," and George Draffan, activist, researcher, and co-author with Jensen of "Railroads & Clearcuts," collaborate again to expose the escalating global war on trees. Ever since Gilgamesh cut down the ancient cedar forests of Mesopotamia, civilizations and empires have foundered and collapsed in the wake of widespread deforestation. Today, with three quarters of the world's original forests gone and the pace of cutting, clearing, processing, and pulping ever accelerating, Jensen and Draffan lay bare the stark scenario we face--we being not only people, but the nonhuman fabric of life itself--unless deforestation is slowed and stopped. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the relationship between deforestation and our ecological crisis as well as an essential "handbook" for forest and anti-globalization activists.

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Original Title: Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests (Politics of the Living)
ISBN: 1931498458 (ISBN13: 9781931498456)
Edition Language: English

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I'm not a fan of deforestation, it negatively impacts biodiversity and generally makes the world more industrialized and ugly. However, I draw the line at comparing loggers to Nazis. Call me crazy, but I don't see the moral equivalence between cutting down trees and killing 6 million Jews. Nor do I see the expedience in attacking environmental organizations like the Sierra Club and the World Wildlife Foundation. Anyway, not much to see here except a big pile of crazy.

With 95% of the United States frontier forests gone, and much of the rest of the worlds disappearing, this book is a last cry to get people aware and motivated to stop the slaughter of the forests, and the concomitant genocide of native peoples and other land-based societies. Tinged with despair, it describes the interlocking machine of consumption, corporations, governments, globalization, colonialism, and genocide that is steadily pillaging the planet. As usual, Jensen makes the important

...so you just ate your chinese take-away and wondering why 'chow-mien' has to be eaten with a pair of chop-stick [made of once living tree...] Mandatory reading for answering that question but be prepared to shed some pearls of salinity...

A wonderful overview of just how unsustainable our current forestry practices are. However, it lacks the depth of most other Jensen books. However, this isn't nearly as dark as some of his other writing, so a good introduction to the author.

Powerful. Not a book to be read if you are already depressed. It is likely to make you lose all hope and possibly be consumed by anger. This is the author's purpose, he actually told me in person as he signed my copy.

Dated-- 2003-- but an important, abundantly-researched, heartbreaking look at forest loss and the devastation of the forestry industry world wide. Only 150 pages but hard to get through due to the depression factor, this book does end on a set of clear aims for a just and sustainable future, should enough true forest survive to nurture.

Pertinent read about forest destruction in the Pacific Northwest. Meticulous research, but felt more like an essay than a book at times.