Use it and Dispose it

Eduardo Galeano

NON FICTION. SIGLO XXI, 2023. 184 PAGES.

Ecological collapse - and the discourse that continues to promote planetary disaster - have become a part of our everyday world. In this anthology, Eduardo Galeano proposes an alternative perspective that is in fact a continuous theme in his work: he reminds us that we are inextricably tied to nature, explores its richness and forms of resistance, and warns us about our urban, ‘modern' tendency to feel that we can do without the natural world. In these pages, Galeano imagines a Judgement Day on which human beings are presided over by a ‘high court of animals and plants' that will accuse us of ‘having turned the kingdom of this world into a desert of stone'. It's not too late, he goes on, to come to the realization once and for all that this planet is our only home.


«Very recently, we have learned that nature can get exhausted, just like us, her children, and that, just like us, she can be murdered. Civilization that confuses clocks with time, growth with development and the big with the great also confuses nature with landscapes while the world, a labyrinth with no centre, ravages its own sky.»
Eduardo Galeano

PUBLISHED BY: Spanish SIGLO XXI EDITORES | Brazil L&PM | Türkiye SEL YAYINCILIK

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