What We Leave Behind

by Derrick Jensen

Other authorsAric McBay
Paperback, 2009

Status

Available

Call number

304.28

Collection

Publication

Seven Stories Press (2009), Paperback, 464 pages

Description

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, writer Derrick Jensen and activist Aric McBay weave historical analysis and 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.--From publisher description.

User reviews

LibraryThing member satyridae
This 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
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human trash. I thought I knew how bad things were, but I was laboring under any number of misapprehensions including the one which says "it can be fixed".

I would write a longer review, but I have to go out and blow up some dams now.
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Physical description

464 p.; 5.98 inches

ISBN

1583228675 / 9781583228678
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