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<h1 class="document_title">What We Leave Behind</h1>
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<p class="contributor_line">By <span><a class="contributor"
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<div>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.</div>
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<dd class="meta_description publisher">Random House Publishing
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<dt class="meta_title released_date">Released: </dt>
<dd class="meta_description released_date" content="Jan 4, 2011">Jan
4, 2011</dd>
<dt class="meta_title isbn">ISBN: </dt>
<dd class="meta_description isbn">9781583229897</dd>
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<h1> What We Leave Behind </h1>
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<div class="review-single-body"> 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.)"" . </div>
<div class="review-single-date"> Reviewed on: <i>03/30/2009</i> <br>
Release date: <i>04/01/2009</i> <br>
Genre: Nonfiction </div>
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