We are living in extraordinary times: never before has a human being experienced a concentration of greenhouse gases like the present one. Climate change and the ecological crisis are accelerating at an unexpected rate and now our house is on fire. What do we do in a fire? Stay calm and find an emergency exit. In this book, Emilio Santiago and Héctor Tejero first show us the magnitude of the fire that threatens our future, and then they try to point us to an escape route to which we can go and buy time. This horizon of urgent transformation must find its way between two demobilizing temptations: catastrophism, which gives collapse the status of a fait accompli, and liberal techno-utopianism, which seeks to reduce sustainability to a technical problem that can be managed by the market. This implies assuming a fundamental premise: the ecological crisis is essentially a political dispute...read more