Madrid Book Fair 2025: Reading on Environment triumphs
Book authors on environment, climate crisis, nature or biodiversity are increasing.
Isabel Giraldo Ramírez, of the El Retiro de las Lyrics bookstore, present in the 108th of the Fair, noted that they have noticed «A big interest in books related to nature»And among them he mentions’Girlpájaroglaciar‘, of the Colombian environmental activist Mariana Matija and published by Almadia Aljosan.
Matija “tells her coexistence with animals, and has so much beauty that one falls in love with” says Giraldo, which also recommends’Rooting‘(Gallo Nero Ediciones), by the American May Sarton, a book of memories, of memories in a country house.
«Both books, Sarton and Matija are very easily in bookstores«, According to Giraldo, who invites you to participate in the activities of the Book Fair.
Center for narrative journalism and reflection on sustainability on planet Earth
For those who prefer to avoid heat and opt for closer spaces, journalist Marta Montojo, co -founder of ‘Late space‘, and «Center for narrative and reflection journalism»In environmental issues, he points out that by the premises, in the Madrid neighborhood of Malasaña, it passes«Many people worried about these themes, especially journalists«.
Montojo details that the premises also debate about publications. ‘Oceans without law‘(Captain Swing), by the American research reporter Ian Urbina, is one recommended by the journalist.
«We have enough political ecology essay, because a good part of the journalism that we promote from Space Late has to do with the ecological crisis«, Comments.
«Almost all research stories have to do with the environment, because we monitor contamination, activism, and many issues related to Latin America, which is at the LaLe«He adds.
Montojo also praises’Interior wars‘(Debate), by Peruvian writer and journalist Joseph Zárate, who approached the debate space to talk about the increase in extractivism in Latin America.
What to read about the environment
Hollow there is for the comic, a format in which he has just been published in Spanish and Catalan ‘How the rich loot the planet and how to prevent it‘, edited by Garbuix Books, based on a books of the French journalist Hervé Kempf and with drawings of the Belgian Juan Méndez.
Last April he reached the bookstores’The men who loved plants. Stories of scientists from the plant world‘(Gutenberg Galaxy), of the Italian botanist and disseminator Stefano Mancuso, author of other essays related to the plant world.
In ‘The fall of heaven. Words of a Yanomami shaman‘(Captain Swing), the French anthropologist Bruce Albert collects the experiences lived during his visits to the Brazilian Amazon, where the indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa taught him the wealth of that ecosystem endangered by deforestation, mining and agribusiness.
‘The Monsanto papers. The Roundup case scandal‘(Ediciones Octaedro) is related to the study published by Food and Chemical Toxicology magazine on the harmful effects of glyphosate, one of the products of the Monsanto multinational, in the health of people.
Professor Gilles-eric Seralini, author of the study, collaborates with Jérome Douzelet in the elaboration of this book, where he recounts the details of the research and pressures of the company of agrochemicals and biotechnology.
Instead, ‘Silent spring‘, by Rachel Carson, is a classic where the Marine Biologist, American conservationist and writer already warned of the problems derived from the use of DDT and other pesticides. EFE / ECOTICIAS.com