Welcome back to Inside Personal Growth! Joining us this episode is Robert Jensen featuring the book he co-authored with Wes Jackson, An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity.

Robert is an emeritus professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin and a founding board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center. He collaborates with New Perennials Publishing and the New Perennials Project at Middlebury College.

In his writing and teaching, Robert draws on a variety of critical approaches to media and power. He writes for popular media, both alternative and mainstream. His opinion and analytic pieces on such subjects as foreign policy, politics, economics, and ecology have appeared in newspapers, magazines, and web sites all over the world.

Robert is also an associate producer and host of Podcast from the Prairie, with Wes Jackson. Aside from this, they co-authored the book An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity published in 2022 by the University of Notre Dame Press. The book argues that humanity’s future will be defined not by expansion but by contraction. Moreover, Jackson and Jensen examine how geographic determinism shaped our past and led to today’s social injustice, consumerist culture, and high-energy/high-technology dystopias.

If you want to learn more about Robert, you may click here to visit his website.

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