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The Delusion Revolution: We're on the Road to Extinction and in Denial

By Robert Jensen, AlterNet. Posted August 15, 2008.


Our current way of life is unsustainable. We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive.

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Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center. His latest book, All My Bones Shake: Radical Politics in the Prophetic Voice, will be published in 2009 by Soft Skull Press. He also is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007).

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