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Traveling from culturally liberal, self-consciously “green” Vancouver, and aware that our well-meaning performances of recycling and climate-justice marching are accompanied by constant driving, flying, heating, and fossil-fuel consumption, Hern and Johal want to talk to people whose lives and fortunes depend on or are imperiled by extraction. They are seeking new definitions of ecology built on a renovated politics of land. Traveling with them is their friend Joe Sacco—infamous journalist and cartoonist, teller of complex stories from Gaza to Paris—who contributes illustrations and insights and a chapter-length comic about the contradictions of life in an oil town. The epic scale of the ecological horror is captured through an series of stunning color photos by award-winning aerial photographer Louis Helbig.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeamlessly combining travelogue, sophisticated political analysis, and ecological theory, speaking both to local residents and to leading scholars, the authors propose a new understanding of ecology that links the domination of the other-than-human world to the domination of humans by humans. They argue that any definition of ecology has to start with decolonization and that confronting global warming requires a politics that speaks to a different way of being in the world—a reconstituted understanding of the sweetness of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished with the help of funding from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan fund\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eMatt Hern is a founder of Solid State Industries, teaches at multiple universities, and lectures widely. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhat a City Is For: Remaking the Politics of Displacement\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press) among many other books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAm Johal is Director of Simon Fraser University's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and author of \u003ci\u003eEcological Metapolitics: Badiou and the Anthropocene.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoe Sacco is a cartoonist and author of \u003ci\u003ePalestine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSafe Area Gorazde\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFootnotes in Gaza\u003c\/i\u003e, and other works of journalism. 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