A review by kdlou12
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour

1.75

Ignoring cultures outside of his own, Latour presents ideas that have been around for millenia as new, and he the great mind behind them all. In writing this book he becomes the very thing he attempts to critique - that is a Eurocentric humanity obsessed with itself, in constant movement towards the ‘modern’.

A look to Aboriginal Peoples for example, would have alerted him that for 60,000+years humans have had alternative systems and knowledges of nature and our entanglement with it. 

Less self importance is needed if we are to address the climate crisis, not more, and Latour would be wiser if he could acknowledge this.