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As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial#A Graphic Novel Paperback – November 19, 2007

by Derrick Jensen (Author), Stephanie McMillan (Author)
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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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Grade 10 Up–This simply drawn graphic satire is largely message-driven, but the message is still entertaining and thought-provoking. As the lighthearted lead character shares what governments, corporations, and activists tell individual Americans to do to save the Earth, her cynical counterpart exposes the futility of these simple solutions. The truth is, even if each and every one of us switched to compact fluorescent bulbs and became vegetarians it would only be a drop in the bucket compared to the damage corporate and government policies are doing to the world environment. The story that binds these notions together is an upcoming alien invasion and a renegade bunny trying to end animal experimentation. The characters are crudely drawn with bare sets, but this style works in a tale in which the words are carrying so much weight. (The politicians have sharper teeth than the bears.) This book doesn't offer up any real answers to what is clearly portrayed as a frightening state of affairs–it includes an animal uprising. However, it will inflame teens' passion about the environment and possibly open more eyes.–Jamie Watson, Harford County Public Library, MD
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“Razor-sharp critique packaged as cute-kid-and-funny-animal cartoon.” —Booklist

"McMillan's expressive style, pared down to the basics and intensified over the years, allows for instant communication of thoughtful rage … a fast-moving page-turner.” —The Comics Journal

"In As The World Burns, satire bites through the sharp vampire-pointed teeth of McMillan's corporate overlords … initially, the graphic novel's underlying message may seem heavy-handed and preachy, but the writing is so acutely entertaining that the message doesn't feel force-fed … Plus, the drawings are so darn cute."  —Palm Beach New Times

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seven Stories Press; 10.2.2007 edition (November 19, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1583227776
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1583227770
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 67 ratings

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    Derrick Jensen is the prize-winning author of A Language Older Than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, Listening to the Land, Strangely Like War, Welcome to the Machine, and Walking on Water. He was one of two finalists for the 2003 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, which cited The Culture of Make Believe as "a passionate and provocative meditation on the nexus of racism, genocide, environmental destruction and corporate malfeasance, where civilization meets its discontents." He is an environmental activist and lives on the coast of northern California.

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    Stephanie McMillan is a cartoonist and writer living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She works in a range of media including comics journalism, editorial cartoons, graphic novels, and illustration. Her syndicated comic strip "Minimum Security" and her editorial cartoons ("Code Green") have appeared in hundreds of publications worldwide. She earned numerous awards including the RFK Journalism Award (2012), and the Society for Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi (2011). She has been an organizer for proletarian revolution since the early 1980s, and brings that experience to bear in her creative work. For more information, see stephaniemcmillan.org

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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Customers find the book a great, well-written, brilliant, and well-constructed read.

"Great book. Very easy to read, read this book for school. It really gets you thinking. I will definitely read again." Read more

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"Perfect book for a drive in the passenger seat. I copied some of the one page stories for some friendly hand-outs in the neighborhood." Read more

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Customers find the book very easy to read and say it conveys a complex situation in simple language.

"Great book. Very easy to read, read this book for school. It really gets you thinking. I will definitely read again." Read more

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"...you should read this book, and its not much reading either, fun and inspiring characters will speak to you from these pages and take you on a..." Read more

"...crudely written and drawn that I find this book more embarrassing than enlightening or inspiring...." Read more

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mersadeez presley
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2015
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Great book. Very easy to read, read this book for school. It really gets you thinking. I will definitely read again.
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Nick
5.0 out of 5 stars Brave and Bold!
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2014
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If you care even a little bit about our environment and the future life on earth, not just human life, all life, you should read this book, and its not much reading either, fun and inspiring characters will speak to you from these pages and take you on a journey to a new world, world with Love, Dignity and Kindness. Dare to Care!
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Carol Grosser
5.0 out of 5 stars A Hugely Depressing Cartoon
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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 books.
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Arthur Digbee
3.0 out of 5 stars An angry parable
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2008
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It's hard to be angry, truly angry, and funny. Jensen and McMillan try to be both in this book, but they come across as more angry than funny. There is some funny satire, especially of psychologists, but many attempts at humor rest on stereotypes such as policemen with mustaches, greedy CEOs, or politicians who have long since sold out to the system.

This book is built around a good basic idea: alien robots come to devour the earth, discover that corporations already have a license to do this, and then need to get the licenses themselves. They achieve this by giving politicians gold bars, which happen to be the robots' excrement, both abundant and useless. The environmental movement launches an all-but-worthless campaign to stop the oppose, but an alliance of animals and sympathetic humans eventually rises up to stop the aliens, corporations, and politicians.

As is obvious from the Amazon description, this is a graphic novel - - that is, what we old folks would have called a comic book. The comic is crudely drawn. It does not compare favorably to the manga books that my kids have around the house, and the drawing style is more in the style of (dare I say it?) "Captain Underpants." I know that the crude style is intentional, but as a reader of a certain age, I found it distracting.

The text presents many of Derrick Jensen's ideas effectively: the destructiveness of civilization; the evil of corporations; the complicity of psychologists, police, and big media, among many many others; and the ineffectiveness of the traditional Left. Some points are simplistic, ideological screeds, while others are interesting, even challenging.

Readers of Jensen's other work will not be surprised to learn that Jensen and McMillan mock nonviolent strategies, and not without reason. But their vision of violence in this book is simplistic - - merely by killing the evil robots and their corporate stooges, civilization ends and nature is saved. A little reflection on the French or Russian Revolutions, among others, would suggest that killing the bad guys may not accomplish what you want it to accomplish.

Rating: 4 for text, 3 for graphics (not my taste) and humor (not enough); because it's intended as a synthetic work, round down. But it's still worth reading.
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P. Halliday
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book for Teenagers Especially
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2013
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I left this book sitting around like a coffee table book for a couple of years. I noticed teenagers were apt to pick it up and browse through it. The backwards humour appealed to many of them.
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Audra805
5.0 out of 5 stars Comic fun
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2015
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Perfect book for a drive in the passenger seat. I copied some of the one page stories for some friendly hand-outs in the neighborhood.
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Erin Day
5.0 out of 5 stars YES!
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2009
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This book is funny, commanding and on point. It conveys a complex situation in simple language without reducing the problems. I think makes an especially good resource for kids/young adults.
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Richard C. Pomaibo
5.0 out of 5 stars Good for a single read and then pass it on ...
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2014
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Good for a single read and then pass it on in the "shared book" shelf at work or the library...
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Schiller
5.0 out of 5 stars Gut illustriert
Reviewed in Germany on November 2, 2018
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Ein gut illustriertes Buch zum Thema Klimawandel. Anhand von Comic-Bildern werden die Inhalte verständlich vermittelt. Eignet sich sowohl für den Privathaushalt als auch für den Unterricht.
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Little Pig
5.0 out of 5 stars To All 'Greens' And 'Environmentalists' - Read This and Start A Real Revolution
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2015
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A truly brilliant comic book that should be required reading for everyone. It takes you on a rollercoaster ride through your emotions, at times funny or infuriating, it is an attempt at a wake up call for true Climate Change revolution. Without a global revolution we are doomed as a race and although this book has a 'happy' ending, it leaves the reader with an almost bottomless sense of despair, because we all know that human beings are too selfish and uncaring to bother even saving ourselves, let alone a beautiful, wonderful, diverse planet such as ours. As great educational tool this book may sadly be at least a century too late, i hope not.
Read it, pass it on, encourage the fight, Viva La Revolution
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Chickpea
5.0 out of 5 stars A book about pollution
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 7, 2014
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This book is actually written in cartoon form and has a great take on the whole question of gold and other precious metals and our absurd way of putting value on these things even though mining for them causes huge amounts of environmental degradation. The book is about pollution and our inevitable destruction of the planet.
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Tim Casswell
5.0 out of 5 stars More profound than you think it'll be
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 13, 2017
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Funny, readable, and revolutionary. Much more profound than you think think it's going to be.
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sameer Tatireddy
3.0 out of 5 stars There is too much anger in this one. Rightly ...
Reviewed in Canada on September 23, 2014
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There is too much anger in this one. Rightly so. I read it in 3 sittings because its just intense.
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