Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
by Ailton Krenak, translated by Anthony Doyle
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“Ailton Krenak is from an indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon, returned there, and became a kind of activist and leader. He talks about the indigenous worldview of his people, and how those concepts might help us think about the role of humans in relation to our habitat and in relation to each other. So it’s really about climate change and how we understand it. It’s quite surprising and arresting to lots of people who are steeped in the very rational Western tradition. I just love it because of the easy, kind way that he offers all this to people for whom it might be unfamiliar.” Read more...
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