A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in
"an age of ecocide"
Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist?an ardent environmentalist. He fought
against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that
seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit
of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on "sustainability"
rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global
conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once
embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First
World would ever