Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
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"Ailton Krenak's ideas inspire, washing over you with every truth-telling sentence. Read this book." - Tanya Talaga, bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers
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…
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2 authors picked Ideas to Postpone the End of the World as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Krenak is an Indigenous Amazonian Indian writer and activist,.
whose people face the end of the world. In this short powerful book
he makes clear that imagination is a key force of survival.
I’m biased here, because I translated this book from Portuguese, but it’s a slender little thing with a huge personality.
Ailton Krenak is an indigenous leader from Brazil, and this essay is his attempt to show where human civilization has gone wrong and what we might do to save it.
In a mix of sigh, outburst, yawn, and eulogy, Krenak suggests some simple paradigm shifts that could make all the difference, but the basic idea is clear: there’s no point in trying to change what we do without first changing how we see—and that’s maybe a stretch too far for…
From Anthony's list on to read before hibernating.
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