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.
