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Author Jensen, Derrick, 1960-

Title What we leave behind / Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay
Edition Seven Stories Press 1st ed
Published New York : Seven Stories Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 453 pages)
Contents Part I: Decay -- Waste-- Garbage -- Sustainability -- Sustainability [trade mark] -- Compartmentalization and its opposite -- Plastic -- Mining -- Medicine -- Toxic gifts -- Bodies -- Part II: Morality -- Taking it personally -- Morality revisited -- Legacy -- The real world -- Taking it personally, volume II -- Magical thinking -- Complexity -- Despair -- Powerlessness -- Growing up -- Part III: The future: business as usual -- Technotopia -- Technotopia: producing waste -- Technotopia: industry -- Collapse -- Fighting back -- The living
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-436) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Refuse and refuse disposal -- Popular works
Pollution -- Popular works
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
Pollution
Refuse and refuse disposal
Genre/Form Popular works
Form Electronic book
Author McBay, Aric.
ISBN 9781583229897
1583229892