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Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
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Overview
Indigenous peoples have faced the end of the world before. Now, humankind is on a collective march towards the abyss. Global pandemics, extreme weather, and massive wildfires define this era many now call the Anthropocene.
From Brazil comes Ailton Krenak, renowned Indigenous activist and leader, who demonstrates that our current environmental crisis is rooted in society’s flawed concept of “humanity” — that human beings are superior to other forms of nature and are justified in exploiting it as we please.
To stop environmental disaster, Krenak argues that we must reject the homogenizing effect of this perspective and embrace a new form of “dreaming” that allows us to regain our place within nature. In Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, he shows us the way.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781487008512 |
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Publisher: | Anansi International |
Publication date: | 10/06/2020 |
Pages: | 88 |
Sales rank: | 370,694 |
Product dimensions: | 4.50(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.25(d) |
About the Author
ANTHONY DOYLE was born in Dublin, Ireland. He holds a degree in English Literature and Philosophy and a master’s degree in Philosophy from UniversityCollege Dublin. He has been living in Brazil since 2000, where he works as a freelance translator of fiction and non-fiction. He is the author of a children’s book in Portuguese entitled O Lago Secou, published by Companhia das Letras.
What People are Saying About This
We need this Right Now! Ideas to Postpone the End of the World.
Ailton Krenak’s words, expressed with the visceral intensity of one of those peoples who ‘still consider the need to stay attached to this land,’ … fill me with hope. Amid the successive catastrophes we experience today, he surprises us once again by teaching that the fight for a better world, a world that can be called home, involves not only explicit activism, but dance, music, the stories we tell at night.
PRAISE FOR AILTON KRENAK AND IDEAS TO POSTPONE THE END OF THE WORLD:
“Perhaps you’re thinking we should come out of the COVID crisis in a new way, not just trying to recreate the old normal. If so, Ailton Krenak has some ideas that might send you down a new and useful path — useful to you, useful to the world.” — Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
“Ailton Krenak’s ideas inspire, washing over you with every truth-telling sentence. Read this book.” — Tanya Talaga, bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers
“We need this Right Now! Ideas to Postpone the End of the World.” — @MargaretAtwood
“Perhaps you’re thinking we should come out of the Covid crisis in a new way, not just trying to recreate the old normal. If so, Ailton Krenak has some ideas that might send you down a new and useful path — useful to you, useful to the world.” — Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
“Ailton Krenak’s words, expressed with the visceral intensity of one of those peoples who ‘still consider the need to stay attached to this land,’ … fill me with hope. Amid the successive catastrophes we experience today, he surprises us once again by teaching that the fight for a better world, a world that can be called home, involves not only explicit activism, but dance, music, the stories we tell at night.” — Aparecida Vilaça, anthropologist and author of Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia and Praying and Preying: Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia
Ailton Krenak’s ideas inspire, washing over you with every truth-telling sentence. Read this book.
Perhaps you’re thinking we should come out of the COVID crisis in a new way, not just trying to recreate the old normal. If so, Ailton Krenak has some ideas that might send you down a new and useful path — useful to you, useful to the world.