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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 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.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      With his commanding voice and calm demeanor, actor Lorne Cardinal adds gravity and urgency to this plea for global change. Cardinal is not a flashy narrator; he rarely modulates or changes tempo. But his resonant delivery and his Cree heritage enable him to convincingly convey the author's spirit of Indigenous activism. According to Krenek, our survival depends on whether we can maintain ties to the ancestral world, renounce our perceived superiority as a species, halt the death spiral of consumerism, give up on the myth of sustainability, and stop corporate deception. The audiobook is short and includes footnotes. (A bell dings, Cardinal reads the note, and then returns to the text.) A second narrator, Jenny Lee Craig, delivers the opening and ending credits. R.W.S. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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