As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial-A Graphic Novel

Derrick Jensen, Stephanie McMillan

Seven Stories Press, Jan 4, 2011 - Comics & Graphic Novels - 224 pages

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.

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User Review  - LarocheM3 - LibraryThing

This comic book is all about how corporations are slowly killing the planet and how most humans are ignoring it completely. Two girls are trying to figure out ways that they could help salvage the ...

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User Review  - opinion8dsngr - LibraryThing

I tried very hard to give this book a fair rating, despite how my personal political opinions clash with those of the authors'. The writers of this graphic novel use a plot about earth-eating aliens ...

About the author

Activist, philosopher, teacher, and leading voice of uncompromising dissent, DERRICK JENSEN holds degrees in creative writing and mineral engineering physics. In 2008, he was named one of the Utne Reader’s "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World," and in 2006 he was named Press Action’s Person of the Year for his work on the book Endgame. He lives in California. 

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial-A Graphic Novel
• Authors: Derrick Jensen, Stephanie McMillan
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1583229590, 9781583229590
• Length: 224 pages
• Subjects: Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary; Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy; Science / Global Warming & Climate Change