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  What We Leave Behind

By Derrick Jensen 
<https://www.scribd.com/author/233858763/Derrick-Jensen>and Aric McBay 
<https://www.scribd.com/author/235436349/Aric-McBay>

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What 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.


Publisher:
    Random House Publishing Group
Released:
    Jan 4, 2011
ISBN:
    9781583229897
Format:
    Book


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  What We Leave Behind

*Derrick Jensen, Author, Aric McBay, Author* Seven Stories Press $24.95 
(453p) ISBN 978-1-58322-867-8

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Industrial civilization is incompatible with life.... Unless it's 
stopped... it will kill every living being, begin environmental 
activists Jensen (""A Language Older than Words"") and McBay (""Peak Oil 
Survival""), introducing the recurring theme and thesis of this radical 
report on the state of Earth and call to action. The book contrasts 
natural systems of growth and decay, in which soil and life forms feed 
each other, with industrial civilization: essentially a complicated way 
of turning land into waste: garbage patches cover more than 40% of 
oceans and multitudes of fish and birds are being killed by plastic 
waste, now more abundant in the seas than phytoplankton. Jensen and 
McBay trash sustainability stars like William McDonough, who designs 
green buildings without questioning their unsustainable uses (truck 
factories and airports); the authors argue that we value our culture 
more than the planet that sustains it. The book is flawed by lapses into 
rants and rages, but Jensen and McBay's message that we need to grow up 
and put away the childish notion that we have the right to take whatever 
we want from nonhumans is eminently reasonable. ""(Apr.)"" .
Reviewed on: /03/30/2009/
Release date: /04/01/2009/
Genre: Nonfiction
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