Timothy Morton, activist: ‘The United States is a massive concentration camp’

The British philosopher, a leader within the new environmental movement, argues that in order to protect the Amazon, we must first destroy the racism that dwells within us.

Timothy Morton is one of the authors leading the new wave of environmentalism. The British thinker, whose latest work is provocative and extremely personal, takes it as a point of fact that the destruction of the planet is in process. Admired by the singer Björk and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the artistic director of the modernist London gallery Serpentine, Morton comes across as a punk creative, one who has kept up the fight against preconceived thinking. He is also one of the authors who has best described the anguish we feel every time we turn on our car engine or air conditioner, fully aware that doing so brings us closer to the end of our species.