Trying to explain a planet in crisis is not the easiest of tasks. Perhaps it demands of us a benevolent and welcoming gaze that sets aside structural and methodical criticisms. The voices are stronger than the banal structures of observation and structural analysis of a society, and this time is now, it is today. Bearing this in mind, these voices become screams, and no matter how hard one tries not to hear them, it becomes increasingly inappropriate, inadequate, and out of touch to ignore them. That being said, I allow myself to be surprised and carried away by every word of agony read in this book. I pour over them to ensure they will be embraced and preserved as proof of a time of pain and suffering in which all of us are, in some way, represented.