Deep Green Resistance

Deep Green Resistance

Founded	2011
Founder	Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Aric McBay
Focus	Environmental justice, Social justice
Location	USA
Method	Direct action, education
Website	deepgreenresistance.org

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.