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by: Derrick Jensen
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7
EAN: 9781583227770
ISBN: 1583227776
Label: Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: November 19, 2007
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Sales Rank: 28319
Studio: Seven Stories Press
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Product Description:
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 US 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.
Derrick Jensen, activist, author, and philosopher, is the author of Endgame, volumes one and two; A Language Older Than Words; and The Culture of Make Believe (a finalist for the 2003 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize), among other books. Jensen's writing has been described as 'breaking and mending the reader's heart' (Publishers Weekly).
Activist and artist Stephanie McMillan began syndicating her daring political cartoons in 1999. Since then her work has appeared in dozens of publications and has been exhibited in museums across the country. A book based on her comic strip, Minimum Security, was published in 2005.
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Rating:  - Funny yet some truth to it
This is a funny graphic novel about the destruction of Earth because of greed. The solution in this book is violence and some reviewers have been appalled by this theory. What is the answer then? Carbon trading? Buying green products? Planting trees? These solutions do not solve the problem with the world, instead they solve the problem of shame in some people. If this book is a bit cynical for you try reading the Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken. I did one star because no one will read the review ... Read More
Rating:  - A Hugely Depressing Cartoon
Very depressing. Makes a clear case that corporate fixes for our doomed civilization are so muuch hogwash. You know, the fixes that urge us to buy new light bulbs and others seen on various corporate green ads. Oh, the one where a woman urges us to respect her company because it "keeps us moving" as if that were a great human need in a polluted world under constant onslaught from global warming storms, fires, and droughts.
Should be given to everyone who likes comics instead of non-fiction ... Read More
Rating: - Easily digestible politics for the planet
With this graphic novel, Derrick and Stephanie demolish the absurdities and myths of the environmental movement in a provocative and hilarious fashion. They butt heads directly with the hypocrisies of dogmatic pacifists and green technophiles, much to their chagrin, but to people who love the land with an open mind, this is a great introduction to a depressing but necessary way of where we are, and where we need to go.
Rating:  - Good message, crude presentation
I like the spirit and overall message of this little book: that the global climate crisis simply won't be solved by individual consumers turning down their thermostats or rotating their tires. These sorts of strategies, beloved by both liberals and capitalists, do nothing to change the economic and political structures that allow for environmental devastation in the first place, and very little to fix the problem of environmental destruction in the second. What's needed for radical problems are radical solutions. ... Read More
Rating: - Poorly drawn, heavy-handed advocation of violence
This poorly drawn, heavy-handed graphic novel advocates responding to our environmental problems with a violent overthrow of civilization. The authors' ideas are utterly ridiculous and unworkable unless of course you don't mind practically ending civilization and the elimination of much of the human population that would result from a return to the supposed utopian lifestyle that the authors advocate. I wonder... are the authors living in shacks or cabins somewhere that they built themselves while growing all their ... Read More
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