Table of Contents
Preface 7
Listening to the Land: Conversations About Nature, Culture, and Eros 15
A Language Older Than Words 19
The Culture of Make Believe 71
Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests George Draffan 113
Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution 133
Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control George Draffan 153
Endgame, Volume One: The Problem of Civilization 173
Endgame, Volume Two: Resistance 215
Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos Karen Tweedy-Holmes) 265
As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial Stephanie McMillan 287
What We Leave Behind Aric McBay 301
Songs of the Dead 341
Lives Less Valuable 361
Dreams 383
Essay: "Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change" 421
Essay: "The Man Box" 425
An Interview with Derrick Jensen Lierre Keith 431
Bibliography 453
Notes 463