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From the author of The Secret Knowledge of Water and Atlas of a Lost World comes a deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons - a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Craig Childs delves into the primacy of the land and the profound nature of the more-than-human.

What is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the natural world? In an era of ecological breakdown, answering these questions has become of momentous importance for our everyday lives and for the future that we and other life-forms face. In the essays of The Philosophy of Social Ecology, Murray Bookchin confronts these questions head on, invoking the ideas of mutualism, self-organization, and unity in diversity, in the service of ever-expanding freedom.

In this collection of essays from 2016-2021, the author explores a variety of themes, including the environment, war, agriculture, settler colonialism, racism, patriarchy, media criticism, "green energy", collapse, and the nature of civilization itself. Stylistically, the selections vary from reporting to analysis to personal storytelling. They previously appeared on Counterpunch, Resilience, Green Social Thought, and other online venues, but this is their first time in an audiobook .