摘要：The West is living in a triumphant euphoria." So wrote the celebrated late Uruguayan writer, Eduardo Galeano. 1 This euphoria, he explains, is blind to its foundations: past and ongoing violence, traged y, poverty, and suffering — inequity that is rife not only elsewhere, but also within the West's richest countries. In an announcement of Galeano's death in the Buenos Aires Herald , he is quoted as having described himself as "obsessed with remembering" in a "land condemned to amnesia." 2 Amnesia. If there is a singular trait to describe An Ecomodernist Manifesto , this is it. Amnesia. In two registers. First, amnesia about the deeply uneven and violent nature of modernization. And second, about the struggles t hat have underpinned every effort to alleviate inequality and violence
