Date of Birth:

Dec 19, 1960 (66 years)

Place of Birth:

Nebraska, USA

Biography:

Derrick Jensen is an American ecophilosopher, writer, author, teacher and environmentalist in the anarcho-primitivist tradition. Utne Reader named Jensen among "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World" in 2008. Democracy Now! has referred to him as "the poet-philosopher of the ecology movement".