Capitalism encroaches on every corner of the planet and orients us toward a future of promised progress, achievement, and growth, but this future doesn't actually exist - we just imagine it. This orientation to tihe future also blinds us to what exists around us, to the plants and animals with which we share the Earth and to the rivers that flow through our lands. Rivers are not just resources to be exploited by us or channels to carry away our waste, they are entities that connect us with our past. If there is a future to imagine, it is ancestral, since it is already present in the here and now and in that which exists around us - in the rivers and mountains and trees that are our kin. Ailton Krenak offers a new perspective that challenges and disrupts some of the assumptions that underpin Western attitudes. His work will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the climate crisis andthe worsening plight of our planet.