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.
- ISBN10 1583229892
- ISBN13 9781583229897
- Publish Date 20 April 2010 (first published 7 April 2009)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 23 April 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Seven Stories Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 480
- Language English