What We Leave BehindWhat 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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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictUntil recently, our waste decomposed naturally, passing through the inevitable cycle of decay, metamorphosis, and regeneration. But the global industrial system, argue environmental activists Jensen ... Read full review
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| Title | What We Leave Behind |
| Authors | Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay |
| Publisher | Seven Stories Press, 2011 |
| ISBN | 1583229892, 9781583229897 |
| Length | 464 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy Science / Environmental Science Self-Help / Spiritual |
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