" Twelve thousand years ago, the war against the earth began. In nine places,2 people started to destroy the world by taking up agriculture. Understand what agriculture is: In blunt terms, you take a piece of land, clear every living thing off it—ultimately, down to the bacteria—and then plant it for human use. Make no mistake: agriculture is biotic cleansing. "

― Derrick Jensen , Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It (Politics of the Living)