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Original Title: | As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial |
ISBN: | 1583227776 (ISBN13: 9781583227770) |
Edition Language: | English |
Derrick Jensen
Paperback | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 3.84 | 1098 Users | 145 Reviews
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Title | : | As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial |
Author | : | Derrick Jensen |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
Published | : | November 6th 2007 by Seven Stories Press |
Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Environment. Politics. Fiction. Philosophy. Nature |
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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.Rating Appertaining To Books As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial
Ratings: 3.84 From 1098 Users | 145 ReviewsWeigh Up Appertaining To Books As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial
This book, so full of promise and hype, was really stupid. It almost could've been cute, if you try to think of it as total camp, what with the posi hippy girl constantly being emotionally pulverized by the gothy type girl. Alien robots that shit gold is also kind of funny, including an army of wild forest creatures fighting back. Yeah, it is true that recycling is not going to "save the planet", nor is full spectrum light bulbs, but unfortunately neither is Derrick Jensen or his literary fans.I bought this from the AK Press table at SF Zine Fest. It seemed like it was pushing my buttons a bit with its criticisms of liberal environmentalist half-measures, so I thought I'd check it out. As other reviewers have pointed out, its solutions aren't really any more practical. The dialogues come off more like straw-man arguments. Still, it was somewhat through-provoking. But if these folks can't even take over the town of Eugene, Oregon, I don't really see how they're going to move beyond a
The message is crucial and needs to be shared. Yet the book lacks nuance in its metaphors and can be very blunt. This bluntness works at times, but most of the time it comes across as childish. For example, the caricatures of the government and corporations are the worst parts of the book by far, and while these scenes do contain good points, like how ludicrous it is that we have bureaucratic systems in place governing and licensing the tearing up of the earth for material product, the
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
I dont disagree with the points theyre trying to make, just find it a bit too sarcastic and depressing for my current state of mind.
This is a scary and informative* comic about how you are totally going to die from global warming no matter what any one does. Which is a theory I do subscribe to but I just realized I never ever want to read about again.*possible punk rock propaganda, small press & not sure where they are getting their statistics, of which there are many and not a single cited source
A comic parable about environmental catastrophe that makes some good points and doesnt bother to try to avoid radical environmentalist/luddite hyperbole. Its designed to reach folks who believe that people are making the planet uninhabitable out of short-sighted greed, but who are still hoping that the solution wont be terribly disruptive to the status quo.
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