Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen

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Wes Jackson is president emeritus of The Land Institute. Robert Jensen is an emeritus professor at the University of Texas at Austin. They are the authors of An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity, from which this essay is drawn. Jensen can be reached at at rjensen@austin.utexas.edu.

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Reject the Consumer: Imagining A New Identity Politics

Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen - October 27, 2022

Freeing ourselves from the corrosive Consumer identity isn’t an individual task, but a call for system change rings hollow if we are afraid of personal change. How can we imagine a world beyond the Consumer if we can’t talk about our experiences of consuming and acknowledge that down-powering will not be easy?