What we leave behind

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 beaut...

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Main Author: Jensen, Derrick, 1960-
Other Authors: McBay, Aric.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Seven Stories Press, c2009.
Edition: Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
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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.