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Title	:	What We Leave Behind
Author	:	Derrick Jensen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 453 pages
Published	:	April 7th 2009 by Seven Stories Press (first published April 1st 2009)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Environment. Science. Sustainability. Biology. Ecology. Nature. Philosophy

What We Leave Behind

Derrick Jensen

Paperback | Pages: 453 pages

Rating: 4.08 | 495 Users | 63 Reviews

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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.

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Original Title:	What We Leave Behind
ISBN:	1583228675 (ISBN13: 9781583228678)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.08 From 495 Users | 63 Reviews

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This book started bad and got worse. It advertized itself as a book on sustainability, which it mostly is, but with a whole bunch of annoying digressions and super annoying commentary from the authors. Unfortunately I found this book so off-putting, I didn't finish it!This is how the first 100-ish pages went, before I stopped: It started off with one of the authors talking about how he poops in the woods by his house (I gathered that he owns the land) and that should be ok because it's natural.

There is a lot of repetition in the most recent Derrick Jensen Books, and in his earlier ones too if I stop and think about it. Although by know he has settled on his mature ideology. You will either accept it, or hate it. If you hate it, then you should know that this book does not change from Jensen's work in Endgame, or The Culture of Make Believe or any of his other well known works. The book starts with an interesting examination of decay and how it leads to life unless civilization gets

If you've read any Derrick Jensen before--or are paying attention at all to the real world--you know that we're fucked. Humanity is doomed and the only question is how much of the earth and how many species we are going to take with us when we go down.The authors come at the inevitable through looking at our culture's waste products. Definitions, plastic, philosophies, examples--there is everything and more in here. The chapter on plastics is fucking horrifying. It's not all terrifying, as both

A bit militant, but good at changing the way we view climate change, and that status quo activism is probably not enough

Industrial civilization is incompatible with life. It is systematically destroying life on this planet, undercutting its very basis. This culture is, to put it bluntly, murdering the earth. Unless its stopped- whether we intentionally stop it or the natural world does, through ecological collapse or other means- it will kill every living being. We need to stop it. From the first paragraph of the preface through four hundred trenchant pages of well-reasoned and well-researched polemic, What We

The chapter "Growing Up" resonated with me. I have told any number of people to grow up lately. Some choice quotes:If we wish to live sustainably, which at this point means to continue to live at all, we must put aside the childish notion that we have the right to take whatever we want from non-humans. We must put away the childish notion that human beings are exempt from ecological principles. We must put away the childish notion that the health of our communities is not our responsibility.We

This is one of those paradigm-shifting books. I picked it up thinking I was doing everything I could, living "green" and being aware. But no, I'm a total corporate tool in ways I never dreamed possible. This is a thoroughly depressing book that opened my eyes to the magnitude of the problems with human trash. I thought I knew how bad things were, but I was laboring under any number of misapprehensions including the one which says "it can be fixed". I would write a longer review, but I have to go