| Edition |
Seven Stories Press first edition. |
| Description |
x, 453 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-436) and index. |
| Summary |
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 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.--From publisher description. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Refuse and refuse disposal -- Popular works.
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Pollution -- Popular works.
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| Added Author |
McBay, Aric.
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| ISBN |
9781583228678 paperback |
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1583228675 paperback |
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