A Collection of Essays about Sigmund Kvaløy Setreng
My Pal Sigmund
By Doug Tompkins
In this short text from 2015, Doug Tompkins shares his profound admiration for Sigmund Kvaløy Setreng’s ecophilosophical writings and activism. He is particularly impressed by the technology critique that Setreng expounded in Gaia versus Servoglobe – a text that was “far ahead of all of us,” according to Tompkins.
A Lasting Love for Wild Nature and Wild Souls
By Helena Norberg-Hodge
Helena Norberg-Hodge was a good friend of Sigmund Kvaløy Setreng; to her he was one of the greatest thinkers she has ever encountered. In this text from 2015, she tells of the frustration she shared with him in trying to wake the environmental movement up to the threat of economic centralization. But both of them also shared the inspiration of having been in extensive and deep contact with people in non-western cultures, particularly in Buddhist ecological communities.
Jumping into the Stream of Things
By Peter Reed And David Rothenberg
In this text from 1993, Peter Reed and David Rothenberg make it abundantly clear why Sigmund Kvaløy Setreng, at the time, was regarded as “Norway’s leading environmentalist.” For a quarter century there were few ecological maelstroms he was not somehow mixed up in, and the ideas, protests, and organizations he initiated have permanently changed the face of Norwegian ecopolitics.
Sigmund Kvaløy Setreng Essays & Articles
