What We Leave Behind
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781583228678 (1583228675)
ASIN: 1583228675
Publish date: April 7th 2009
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Environment,
Nature,
Biology,
Ecology,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Social Science,
Sustainability,
Social Issues,
Activism
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 hu...
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