Susan Griffin

Susan Griffin’s most recent work, the anthology she co-edited, Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World has received high praise. Among the twenty books she has written, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War, a New York Times Notable Book, was a finalist the Pulitzer Prize, winning the Northern California Book Award. An earlier volume, the groundbreaking Woman and Nature, is credited with inspiring eco-feminism. Named by Utne Reader as one of a hundred important visionaries for the new millennium, she has been has been the recipient of an NEA Grant, a Macarthur Grant for Peace and International Cooperation, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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We Are All Facing Extinction

By Susan Griffin | December 12, 2011

We live in a society that pits the needs of human beings against nature. Over and over again, through advertisements and public pronouncements, we’re urged to sacrifice forests, mountaintops, rivers, wholes species, or even the quality of the air we breathe so we can have energy, jobs, economic well-being. But the conflict that is conjured by corporate interests between what we need and the needs of the earth should not be confused with the human condition.