Ethics in the Ecological Cataclysm
Civilization and Its Troubles
Fabian Scheidler, End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization
A broad historical survey that reflects our own contemporary understanding of western civilization as fraught with tyranny.
Introduction through Chapter 4
Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Home Rule, Chapters 1 - 6
Issues of tyranny and liberation specific to India at the turn of the twentieth century, but which fit nicely into the context provided by Scheidler.
Aric McBay, Lierre Keith and Derrick Jensen, Deep Green Resistance, Preface through Chapter 2
An argument that civilization is the root cause of ecological devastation.
Ben Knight and Travis Rummel, DamNation | The Problem with Hydropower
A film examining the effect of dams on wild salmon fisheries, a key example emphasized by McBay, Keith and Jensen.
Gandhi, Chapters 7 - 12
More troubles of civilization as experienced by Gandhi.
Civilization as False Consciousness
Simon Blackburn, Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
Introduction
Part 1, "Seven Threats to Ethics"
Essay 1 — Civilization as False Consciousness
Cataclysm — Political and Ecological
Robert O. Paxton, “Liberalism and Conservatism: Fascism’s Two Principal Coalition Partners”
Scheidler
Chapter 9, "Mask — Governing the Great Machine and the Fight for Democracy (1787 - 1945)
Noam Chomsky in 2020 STAR Conference Remarks by Prof. Noam Chomsky and Prof. Chris Glass
Roger Hallam, Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown and Social Collapse
Introduction
Chapter 1, "Why a Rebellion?"
Chapter 2, "Accepting the Truth Is the First Step"
Chapter 3, "Reformism vs Political Revolution"
Lierre Keith, Deep Green Resistance
Chapter 3, "Liberals and Radicals"
Chapter 4, "Culture of Resistance"
Aric McBay, Deep Green Resistance, First Two Collapse Scenarios in Chapter 14
"Bringing it Down: Collapse Scenarios"
Scenario 1, "No Resistance"
Scenario 2, "Limited Resistance"
Peter Carter interviewed by Hallam, "We're Looking at Billions of People Not Being Able to Survive"
The Economist, See What Three Degrees of Global Warming Looks Like
Peter Sinclair, James Hansen's 1988 Testimony after 30 Years. How Did He Do?
Ray Anderson, "Intergenerational Tyranny," interviewed in 2003
Wikipedia, "United Nations Climate Change Conference"
Greta Thunberg
"You Are Stealing Our Future," speaking at COP24 in 2018
"COP26 Is a Failure," speaking in the activist ghetto outside of COP26 in 2021
Mitzi Jonelle Tan and Brandon Wu interviewed by Amy Goodman, "Glasgow Pact Slammed for Betraying the Global Poor Who Suffer Most from the Climate Emergency"
Hallam, Advice to Young People as They Face Annihilation
Dire Consequences and the Call of Duty in the Ecological Cataclysm
Blackburn, Very Short Introduction, Part 2, "Some Ethical Ideas"
Essay 2 — Dire Consequences and the Call of Duty in the Ecological Cataclysm
Strategic Ethical Action in the Ecological Cataclysm
Scheidler, End of the Megamachine, Chapter 11, "Possibilities — Exit from the Megamachine"
Gandhi, Indian Home Rule
Chapter 13, "What Is True Civilization?"
Chapter 14, "How Can India Become Free?"
Chapter 17, "Passive Resistance"
Hallam, Common Sense
Chapter 4, "A Proposal for Rebellion"
Chapter 5, "The Action Plan"
Chapter 10, "The Great Transition"
McBay, Deep Green Resistance
Chapter 6, "A Taxonomy of Action"
Collapse Scenario 3, "All-Out Attacks on Infrastructure" in Chapter 14
"Decisive Ecological Warfare Strategy," in Chapter 14
"Phase I: Networking & Mobilization"
"Phase II: Sabotage & Asymmetric Action"
"Phase III: Systems Disruption"
"Phase IV: Decisive Dismantling of Infrastructure"
Ethical Foundations in the Ecological Cataclysm
Blackburn, Very Short Introduction, Part 3, "Foundations"
Essay 3 — Ethical Foundations in the Ecological Cataclysm
Sacrificial Disruption versus Decisive Warfare
Hallam, Common Sense, Chapter 6, "The Value of Symbolic and Sacrificial Disruption"
Peter Gelderloos, How Nonviolence Protects the State
Chapter 1, "Nonviolence Is Ineffective"
Chapter 2, "Nonviolence Is Racist"
Chapter 3, "Nonviolence Is Statist"
Chapter 4, "Nonviolence Is Patriarchal"
Chapter 5, "Nonviolence Is Tactically and Strategically Inferior"
Chapter 6, "Nonviolence Is Deluded"
Chapter 7, "The Alternative: Possibilities for Revolutionary Activism"
McBay, Deep Green Resistance
"Why Decisive Dismantling and Warfare?" in Chapter 14
"Analyzing Decisive Ecological Warfare: Strategic Criteria" in Chapter 14