Strangely Like War

The Global Assault on Forests

Derrick Jensen and George Draffan; Foreword by Vandana Shiva

"In Strangely like War, Derrick Jensen and George Draffan open our eyes to the terrorist assault on our living guardians and the destruction of our real security."

--From the Foreword by Vandana Shiva

"It was strangely like war. They attacked the forest as if it were an enemy to be pushed back from the beachheads, driven into the hills, broken into patches, and wiped out. Many operators thought they were not only making lumber but liberating the land from the trees. . ."

The Last Wilderness, by Murray Morgan, 1976

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Derrick Jensen, prize-winning author of A Language Older than Words and The Culture of Make Believe, and George Draffan, activist, researcher, and co-author with Jensen of Railroads & Clearcuts, collaborate again to expose the escalating global war on trees. Ever since Gilgamesh cut down the ancient cedar forests of Mesopotamia, civilizations and empires have foundered and collapsed in the wake of widespread deforestation. Today, with three quarters of the world's original forests gone and the pace of cutting, clearing, processing, and pulping ever accelerating, Jensen and Draffan lay bare the stark scenario we face--we being not only people, but the nonhuman fabric of life itself--unless deforestation is slowed and stopped. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the relationship between deforestation and our ecological crisis as well as an essential "handbook" for forest and anti-globalization activists.

About the Authors

Derrick Jensen is the author of The Culture of Make Believe; A Language Older than Words; Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture, and Eros; and co-author of Railroads & Clearcuts. The Culture of Make Believe was one of two finalists for the 2003 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. He writes for The New York Times Magazine, Audubon, and The Sun among many others. For more information please visit www.derrickjensen.org.

George Draffan is a forest activist, public interest investigator, and corporate muckraker. He is the author of The Elite Consensus, A Primer on Corporate Power, and co-author of Railroads & Clearcuts. For the past fifteen years he has provided research services and training to citizens and public interest groups that are investigating and challenging corporate power. Some of his work can be found at Endgame, a project of the Public Information Network. For more information please visit www.endgame.org.

Vandana Shiva is the author of Stolen Harvest, The Violence of the Green Revolution, Water Wars, and many other books and articles. She one of India’s leading physicists, an internationally renowned activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award, known as “the alternative Nobel Prize.” She is the founder and Director of Research Foundation for Science Technology and Natural Resource Policy.