In response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and
the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading
Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the power
of corporate capitalism and its destructive impact.
Capitalism encroaches on every corner of the planet and orients us
toward a future of promised progress, achievement and growth, but this
future doesn’t exist - we just imagine it. This orientation to the
future also blinds us to what exists around us, to the plants and
animals with which we share the Earth and to the rivers that flow
through our lands. Rivers are not just resources to be exploited by
us or channels to carry away our waste, they are beings that connect
us with our past. If there is a future to imagine, it is ancestral,
since it is already present in the here and now and in that which
exists around us, in the rivers and mountains and trees that are our
kin.
In a spoken language that has the mark of ancestral oral wisdom,
Krenak offers a new perspective that challenges and disrupts some of
the assumptions that underpin Western attitudes and mentalities. His
work will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the climate
crisis and the worsening plight of our planet.
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9781509560745
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2024
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Engelsk
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