Shuar group in the park of Logroño, Ecuador. Wikimedia Commons/Jlh249. Some rights reserved.
According to the Ecuadorian philosopher Bolívar Echeverría, modern life is based on an absurdity: "a way of life in which, amidst the possibility of abundance, reproducing is at the same time mutilating, sacrificing, oppressing and exploiting one another".
That is to say: the current technical and social possibilities would allow us to reach the Sumak Kawsay (the full life of all beings inhabiting this planet) that we have been waiting for so long, if it were not for "the curse of abundance" which, in spite of this, produces a society that generates, consumes and reproduces wealth by destroying its two main sources: humans and nature.
