A conversation with Derrick Jensen - "You have a sacred task as educators" - October 16, 2019

Northern California and Uppsala October 16, 2019.

An online conversation with Derrick Jensen, author of "Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution", "Endgame", "Deep Green Resistance" and many other important books.

We talked about the role of education, teaching, learning, tests, the book "Walking on Water", the ideal society and sustainable development, technology and the present situation we're in and continuing the fight into the future.

Derrick Jensen finishes the conversation with:

"You have a sacred task as educators, as you know from the book ["Walking on Water" 2004] to lead forth and draw out your students, and I think that's an incredibly important role, especially as discourse shuts down and becomes crazier and crazier by the day ... just like we need to protect every wild place ... I have a good friend who's an environmentalist who the reason he does the work ... is because as things become increasingly chaotic he wants to make sure that some doors remain open, by which he means if Bull trout are still here in twenty years they may still be here in a hundred, if Redwood trees are still are here in twenty years, they be here in a hundred, but if they're gone now they're gone forever, and it's the same with sanity, and it's the same with discourse, that anything you can do to protect pockets of sanity, as things become increasingly chaotic, make sure that those doors stay open."

October 16, 2019 - Northern California and Uppsala.

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