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Author Jensen, Derrick, 1960-

Title What we leave behind / Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay.

Imprint New York : Seven Stories Press, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  304.28 J453w 2009    ---  Available
Edition Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
Description x, 453 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-436) and index.
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.
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.
Subject Refuse and refuse disposal -- Popular works.
Pollution -- Popular works.
Added Author McBay, Aric.
ISBN 9781583228678 (pbk.)
1583228675 (pbk.)

 
    
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