What We Leave Behind
By Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay · 2011
- About this editionISBN: 9781583229897, 1583229892Page count: 464Published: January 4, 2011Format: E-bookPublisher: Seven Stories PressLanguage: EnglishAuthor: Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay
What We Leave Behind is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. Here, award-winning author Derrick Jensen and activist Aric McBay weave historical analysis and devastatingly beautiful prose to remind us that life—human and nonhuman—will not go on unless we do everything we can to facilitate the most basic process on earth, the root of sustainability: one being's waste must always become another being’s food.Source: PublisherReviewsReviews from other sitesThis is one of those paradigm-shifting books. I picked it up thinking I was doing everything I could, living "green" and being aware. But no, I'm a total corporate tool in ways I never dreamed possible. This is a thoroughly depressing book that opened my eyes to the magnitude of the problems with... MoreUntil recently, our waste decomposed naturally, passing through the inevitable cycle of decay, metamorphosis, and regeneration. But the global industrial system, argue environmental activists Jensen (Endgame) and McBay, now produces massive amounts of unsustainable and toxic wastes. In fact, Eart... MoreOther editionsCommon terms and phrasesMore terms and phrasesShow lessGet bookBorrowFind in a librarySearch in WorldCat.Search WorldCatSimilar booksThe Derrick Jensen ReaderWritings on Environmental RevolutionBy Derrick Jensen, Lierre KeithIn an age marked by seemingly unstoppable environmental collapse and the urgent quest for solutions, environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen, the voice of the growing deep ecology movement, reveals ...The Myth of Human SupremacyBy Derrick JensenIn this impassioned polemic, radical environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen debunks the near-universal belief in a hierarchy of nature and the superiority of humans. Vast and underappreciated ...Endgame, Volume 2ResistanceBy Derrick JensenThe long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread ...About the workOriginally published: 2009Genre: Self-help bookSubject: Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Science / Environmental Science, Self-Help / Spiritual, Body, Mind & Spirit / Spirituality / General, Technology & Engineering / Environmental / Waste Management, Electronic books, Pollution -- Popular works, Refuse and refuse disposal -- Popular works, ScienceMOREAuthorDerrick JensenAmerican authorDerrick Jensen is an American author, ecophilosopher, radical environmentalist, and anti-civilization advocate. According to Democracy Now!, Jensen "has been called the poet-philosopher of the ecological movement." WikipediaMore by authorA Language Older Than WordsBy Derrick JensenAt once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives ...As the World Burns50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial-A Graphic NovelBy Derrick Jensen, Stephanie McMillanTwo of America's most talented activists team up to deliver a bold and hilarious satire of modern environmental policy in this fully illustrated graphic novel. The U.S. government gives robot ...The Culture of Make BelieveBy Derrick JensenDerrick Jensen takes no prisoners in The Culture of Make Believe, his brilliant and eagerly awaited follow-up to his powerful and lyrical A Language Older Than Words. What begins as an exploration of ...
