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| Founded | 2011 |
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| Founder | Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Aric McBay |
| Focus | Environmental justice, Social justice |
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| Method | Direct action, education |
| Website | deepgreenresistance |
Deep Green Resistance (DGR) is a radical environmental movement that perceives the existence of industrial civilization itself as the greatest threat to the natural environment, and calls for its dismantlement and a return to a pre-agricultural level of technology. Although DGR operates as an aboveground group, it calls on others to use underground and violent tactics such as attacks on infrastructure or assassination. A repeated claim in DGR literature is that acts of sabotage could cause a cascading effect and lead to the end of civilization. DGR and far-right ecofascists use similar accelerationist and anti-majoritarian tactics, seeking systemic collapse.
DGR is widely denounced by other radical environmentalists, even those who support sabotage, because of "the group’s vanguardism, its disregard for billions of already-precarious human lives dependent on agriculture, its self-defeating attacks on anarchism and veganism, and the virulent transphobia of the group’s leaders, Lierre Keith and Derrick Jensen".[1] Some Native American[2] and other environmental groups have refused to work with DGR because of its controversial stance on transgender issues.
- ^ Brown, Joseph M. (2021). "Civil Disobedience, Sabotage, and Violence in US Environmental Activism". The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics (1 ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 369. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197515037.013.34. ISBN 978-0-19-751503-7.
- ^ Scheyder 2024, p. 139.