Personal change does not equal political activism: "WOULD ANY SANE PERSON think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”?"
The only problem is that Jensen’s response is a massive culling of the human population: a pretty f-ing evil position when you unpack it in real terms.
True, and I’m (obviously) not approving of that. But I think in this article his important point is that we can’t mistake lifestyle activism for the harder, necessary work of building political power and making social change.