Other double binds are false. This is one of the latter. There is an unspoken premise of the argument in favor of wind turbines: that harvesting ener… - Derrick Jensen

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Other double binds are false. This is one of the latter. There is an unspoken premise of the argument in favor of wind turbines: that harvesting energy is more important than birds and bats. That some sacrifices (billions of sacrifices, in this case) are justifiable to provide industrial humans with energy. This is, of course, the usual human supremacist assumption. The only way out of a double bind is to smash it. That’s what we must do.

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Derrick Jensen (born 19 December 1960) is an American author and environmental activist who lives in Northern California.

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Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility.

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