That it is imperative to face another way of inhabiting this planet, there is no doubt. Our passage through the world is marked by landmarks as emblematic as they are insubstantial if we observe the equivalence of our time with the cosmos.
So inconsequential and so capable of changing everything. The Earth will survive us and we will be a unique species in the Universe bent on self-destruction. We do not need meteorites or ice ages, with a little free will, the new world is fine.
We are many and badly agreed. A neighborhood full of resentments, delighted to throw garbage on the neighbors below, unable to understand anything of the meaning of the common good ...
We have literature in abundance on the disaster to come. Examples like «Footprints: In Search of the World We Will Leave Behind» or «The way we live»To name a couple of them. But not even putting black on white are we able to consider anything beyond saving our ass or doing business even with the apocalypse. We are the most pathetic civilization south of the Milky Way ... Nothing to do with dystopian science fiction. It is simply tomorrow.
About time and water is a deep and compelling narrative essay on the global environmental crisis and, at the same time, an intimate and desperate plea to the world. It was born from a conversation with a leading scientist convinced that it is writers, and not scientists, who are best qualified to discuss one of the most pressing issues for humanity.
The arguments that he uses are, then, indistinctly mythological or scientific, anecdotal or strictly moral and philosophical. The result is a rich network of travel stories, family stories, poetic moments: a beautiful book, as well as urgent.
You can now buy the book «On time and water», by Andri Snær Magnason, here:
