Jeg hadde ikke hørt om denne forfatteren før jeg kom over prosjektet «The Dark Mountain«. Det ble startet av Kingsnorth og Dougald Hine i 2009. Da skrev de «Uncivilisation» sammen, med undertittelen «The Dark Mountain Manifesto«. Nå har jeg lest ferdig boka «Against the Machine» (2025 – utdrag kommer), som er Kingsnorth sin siste bok, og har begynt på «Confessions of a Recovering Enviromentalist» (2017). I forordet til denne siste boka går det ganske klart frem at han har gitt opp både miljøbevegelsen og troen på at dette kan gå bra:
I saw that the momentum of the human machine – all its cogs and wheels, its production and consumption, the way it turned nature into money and called the progress growth – was not going to be turned around now. Most people did´t want it to be; they were enjoying it. All the arguments, all the colourful campaigns, all the well-researched case studies were just washing up on the beach and expiring quietly on the sand, like exhausted jellyfish. There was no stopping what we had unleashed. We were going to eat everything, including ourselves. It was locked in now. It was too late.
Paul Kingsnorth – Confessions of a Recovering Enviromentalist, s. 3-4
