Leaving Us Behind

What We Leave Behind by Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay (Seven Stories Press) Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis by Vandana Shiva (South End Press) Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay’s What We Leave Behind begins with a story about shit. It sounds snarky and unfair when I describe it that way, but that’s because shit occupies a rather maligned place in Western culture; the story itself is quite lovely. One of the authors (they intentionally avoid saying wh