num_pages: 464
description: 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 lifehuman and nonhumanwill not go on unless we do everything we can to facilitate the most basic process on earth the root of one being's waste must always become another beings food.
language: English
title: What We Leave Behind
publisher: Seven Stories Press