AKA

This event will be a presentation of Aric McBay’s new book, What We Leave Behind, and discussion of its insights. WWLB is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. In the book, award-winning author Derrick Jensen and local Kingston activist Aric McBay weave historical analysis and devastatingly beautiful prose to remind us that life—human and nonhuman—will not go on unless we do everything we can to facilitate the most basic process on earth, the root of sustainability: one being’s waste must always become another being’s food.

As part of Olympics Awareness Week, Aric will also make ties between the destruction and colonialism of land in British Columbia and question the notion of ‘Green Olympics’, and sustainability in development in general.