Declare Epithetical Books As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial
| Title | : | As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial |
| Author | : | Derrick Jensen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | November 6th 2007 by Seven Stories Press |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Environment. Politics. Fiction. Philosophy. Nature |
Derrick Jensen
Paperback | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 3.84 | 1098 Users | 145 Reviews
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Two of America's most talented activists team up to deliver a bold and hilarious satire of modern environmental policy in this fully illustrated graphic novel. The U.S. government gives robot machines from space permission to eat the earth in exchange for bricks of gold. A one-eyed bunny rescues his friends from a corporate animal-testing laboratory. And two little girls figure out the secret to saving the world from both of its enemies (and it isn't by using energy-efficient light bulbs or biodiesel fuel). As the World Burns will inspire you to do whatever it takes to stop ecocide before it’s too late.Describe Books Conducive To As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial
| Original Title: | As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial |
| ISBN: | 1583227776 (ISBN13: 9781583227770) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.84 From 1098 Users | 145 ReviewsCriticism Epithetical Books As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial
Self-righteous doesn't even really scratch the surface. At first I thought I was going to love this b/c it opened with talking about how futile recycling is, and how it accomplishes basically nothing other than making people feel good about themselves, which is so true, cuz omg I fucking hate recycling. But it quickly becomes apparent that the nutbags who wrote this book are just WAY more extreme.. like the environmentalist version of PETA. What's it called, EarthFirst? Like those people. TheirWhen I found this graphic novel about capitalists and politicians screwing up the planet, mostly clueless humans, alien robots eating everything and shitting gold and animals ready to fight tooth and nail for freedom, I knew it must be good (at least), even though there were so many negative reviews. Actually, I made the assumption about the book thanks to those reviewers who had been angry just because it mocks toxic liberal bourgeois pacifism and advocates the use of diverse violent means
It was funny and entertaining, but I couldn't help but be disturbed by the ideas presented. Don't get me wrong, I'm big on environmentalism. I'm at least 60% hippy. But the author is a tad extreme for me. Not only does he explicitly condone eco-terrorism, but he is guilty of many of the things he seems to condemn the "evil corporations" of, such as manipulation for one. Let's get one things straight here folks: corporations are not by definition evil. Sure, there are some, actually many, bad
Such promise, for what it was: Ohm-ing changes nothing but your insides, which are small comparatively. "We will go quietly, meekly, to the end of the world if only you will allow us to believe that buying low energy light bulbs will save us."All this excoriation of denial to devolve into a Noah's Ark, Noble Savage, animist fantasy in which all the animals and rocks and wind and shit tell the humans how to live, and then join forces with them to kill the earth-eating aliens. You'd think a
Oh boy, it's difficult to put into words how disappointed I am with this one. Jensen is an anarcho-primitivist who smugly proposes that we simply "return to nature" against the entire march of history. While I'm all for a critique of liberal solutions to environmental degradation, Jensen basically presents a foolish girl who wants to use all variations of individualist solutions to heal the planet, then rebukes her with the ultimate individualist solution of direct-action, ostensibly through
I had to push myself to get through to the end, possibly because I am aware of many of the points made in this graphic novel. I also don't think graphic novels are my thing, but if you do, it would be worthwhile to read this one.
I had hope that this book would have something more interesting to say about how to be good stewards of the earth, other than reduce, reuse, recycle, etc. I may not be as actively against our consumer culture as the characters in this story, but I have long been frustrated by the greed and selfishness of government/corporations/individuals who don't really care what kind of effect their actions have on their environment. I was encouraged to see this book mention that it would take more than
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