ABOUT MICHAEL ASHER

April 23, 2012

  I’m from a small, rural market town in England, but I’ve lived for many years in Africa , and speak 2 African languages.  Now, approaching my 60th year, I can say  I’ve had some  experience  of life.  I’ve been a special forces soldier, an anti-terrorist cop,  a journalist, a teacher of history and English, a UN project officer,  a [...]

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VAMPIRE CIVILIZATION

March 30, 2012

Where do vampires come from and what do they mean?  Have you noticed that we’ve been invaded by vampires? Everywhere you look, you’ll see them: vampires in high-school, vampires in motorcars,  vampires in shopping malls, vampires in restaurants,  vampires in discos, vampires on the board.  We’ve had Vampire$, Underworld, Blade, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer:  [...]

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MOROCCO CAMEL TREK

March 24, 2012

Travel across the Sahara desert between Marrakesh and  Fez with  Michael Asher HIGHLIGHTS Sunset in the Sahara Sleeping out under the stars Camel riding Dunes of the Erg Chebbi Being accompanied by explorer Michael Asher The Medina at Fez   THE GUIDE Author,  historian, and deep ecologist,  Michael Asher is perhaps Britain’s most distinguished desert explorer.  [...]

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DEEP QUESTIONS – ACTIVIST NOTES

March 18, 2012

  Almost everything you think  you know about the world is programmed into you by industrial culture:  this process begins at birth, and is reinforced at every stage of your lives through sources of ideological conditioning. These include the family, the media, education, arts and leisure pastimes, all of which interact to give us a world [...]

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SUDAN CAMEL TREK

July 30, 2011

SUDAN CAMEL TREK With Award-Winning Explorer Michael Asher     ‘Having walked the breadth of the Sahara himself, and examined the lives of two of the greatest desert explorers of the last century… Asher understands this passion, this place, and these people  as well as any Westerner alive.’   US writer and historian Dean King,  author [...]

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EAT LIKE THE HUNTER-GATHERERS

July 24, 2011

We’re always told that our hunter hunter-gatherer ancestors were ‘primitive savages’  but they were certainly fitter, leaner, taller, and healthier than we are, and had bigger brains.  They might have been lunch for wild beasts on occasions, but they didn’t suffer the lingering misery of  ‘civilized’ maladies such as cancer, heart-disease, high-blood pressure,  and obesity.  [...]

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LOST DREAMS OF AFRICA

July 21, 2011

 The British in Kenya: How Industrial  civilization wrecks  sustainable indigenous societies  and replaces them with corrupt and unsustainable ones.  Prologue: The Lari Incident.   Kenya:  26 March 1953. Tribesmen armed with machetes fall on Kikuyu homesteads at Lari ridge, near Nairobi, by night. They set fire to scores of huts, and hack to death or mutilate [...]

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THE 300-YEAR WAR AGAINST MOTHER EARTH

February 18, 2011

 ”We are now very much in the position of the Medieval world.  Our most pressing problems cannot be solved with the old scientific world picture … we must either find a new way to organize knowledge, a new way of conceptualizing reality, or go under.”  Lawrence Leshan and Henry Marganau. Stranger in a Strange Land [...]

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WHY IS DEEP ECOLOGY DEEP?

December 10, 2009

There is no  Planet B. Progress was the great myth of the industrial era, but that myth has now turned into a nightmare.  Half of the world’s forests are gone,  40% of topsoils degraded,  half the world’s sources of fresh water used exclusively by humans.  With a current world population of 6.8 billion, the idea  that [...]

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