Bibliograph

What we leave behind, Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay

Type

Label

What we leave behind, Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-436) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

What we leave behind

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

261176357

Responsibility statement

Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay

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

Table Of 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

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