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Product Details
ISBN-10
1-58322-867-5
ISBN-13
978-1-58322-867-8
Publication Date
Apr 2009
Nb of pages
438
Dimensions 6 x 9 in.
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DescriptionWhat 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.
Additional Materials
B.U.R.N.
(mp3 28.87 MB)
Bottom Up Radio Network (B.U.R.N.) talks to Derrick Jensen and callers about magical thinking, the "Forget Shorter Showers" piece, and other issues in these the end days of the planet Earth.
Aric McBay at R.A.G.E.
(mp3 50.19 MB)
Aric McBay talks about What We Leave Behind and the Deep Green Resistance group with Seymour Lyphe of R.A.G.E. (Radio Against Global Ecocide).
Derrick Jensen On Your Call
(mp3 25.37 MB)
Derrick Jensen talks to Your Call about magical thinking in the environmental movement.
ReviewsPress Reviews
Powell's
Unwaveringly forthright, urgent and compelling. While there has been no shortage of recent works written about climate change, environmental degradation, dwindling fossil fuel supplies, and impending catastrophe, few are as direct, pragmatic, and compassionate as this one.
- Jeremy Garber
Booklist
... An in-depth analysis of waste and wastefulness... Some may bridle at Jensen and McBay's bluntness, urgency, and bold vision, but their demand for the end of wishful thinking and beginning of
- Donna Seaman
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E Magazine
What We Leave Behind is the kind of direct, unflinching, personal writing that you'd expect from a memoir about a harrowing childhood, not one about the state of the planet, or what
- Brita Belli
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ForeWord Magazine
What We Leave Behind is not light reading. But a reader willing to stay on this circuitous journey to the end will be rewarded.
- Karl Kunkel
Publishers Weekly
Library Journal
Feministe
Part I [of What We Leave Behind] outlines each major form of pollution, from solid waste products to toxic gases, and for the most part, it's as engrossing as it is important. The
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Experts
Reading What We Leave Behind makes me think of Thoreau, of Lewis Mumford, of Tolstoy, who asked us to rethink our most deeply embedded beliefs in order to live clean, modest ...more
-Howard Zinn
This is a fierce book. . . . Its basic premise—that we're in worse trouble than we understand, and that a little change around the edges won't help—is precisely the message that needs to get out.
-Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future and The End of Nature
A tour de force of beautifully written storytelling about what is required to stop killing the planet. . . . A rare book that provides answers.
-Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author of Outlaw Woman and Red Dirt |
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