Plunging into the maelstrom
With Trump’s return to the White House, the apocalypse is now fully underway. If humanity is to endure, we must regain our ability to dream and remember that we are Nature
Plunging into the maelstrom
With Trump’s return to the White House, the apocalypse is now fully underway. If humanity is to endure, we must regain our ability to dream and remember that we are Nature
Invisible cities
How do we deal with droughts and floods? How can we live in human and non-human community, with equity, comfort, and safety? We must tread lightly, our footsteps gentle
Only ancestral peoples have the technology to regenerate a dying forest
Urgent action is needed to contain the capitalist metastasis spreading through the Amazon and far beyond
Sacred medicines may help to heal the planet, but society’s woes run deeper
Science has proved that psychedelics, like ayahuasca, can increase the production of new neurons. But reducing the benefits of these ritual medicines to ‘cellular plasticity’ is a dangerous gateway to their appropriation by the market
Drugs and the bane of the military
Who gains from the war on drug trafficking if crime and death only grow, terrorizing the poor, corrupting the State, and holding society hostage?
The cactus, the fig tree and the sumaúma
If one day we decide to close the open veins of Latin America and free ourselves from exploitation by all kinds of gringos, we will do so by affirming our Afro-Indigenous roots, which always make life more verdant
Grandfather Fire
Our conscious, ancestral production of fire was key to transforming us into animals capable of subjugating any and all land predators. What must we recover to save ourselves from our own Death drive?
The non-indigenous problem
Capitalism seems eager to kill everything, down to the very last jaguar. To burn everything, down to the very last macaw. To topple everything, down to the very last kapok
Letter to our developmentalist friends
In his first column, neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro argues that no amount of money can justify oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon, which accelerates instability. Why, he asks, are we degrading and destroying live organic matter to extract dead organic matter?
