How do we live, and how could we live? William Morris's question takes on an unprecedented urgency today. Emilio Santiago Muíño addresses this crossroads from a radical perspective: he rejects both destructive consumerism and resigned austerity; instead, he proposes a third way.

Inspired by the Paris Commune, the author redefines the idea of ​​luxury to argue how, in the midst of a climate crisis, we can lead a desirable, even enviable, life; a life based on collective enjoyment: playing together, partying and its intoxication, humor and dancing, free time and laziness, caring; a life of the rich, in short, but with a low ecological impact.

Applying Gramsci's lessons to environmentalism, the book moves from "degrowth" to "post-growth" and offers concrete political tools to realize this vision and confront the insidious ecofascism of Donald Trump. It concludes with some of the most compelling pages of recent essay writing: a tangible and hopeful program for achieving genuinely shared abundance.

Emilio Santiago was born in Ferrol in 1984. He holds a PhD in Anthropology and is a tenured scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where he researches climate anthropology. He is an eco-social activist and founder of the Rompe Transition Institute. el CírculoHe has taught at the Autonomous University of Madrid, the University of Zaragoza, and in the Independent Studies Program at the MACBA in Barcelona. Between 2016 and 2019, he was the technical director of the Environment Department for the Móstoles City Council.

He is the author of numerous publications on crisis and ecological transition, among others, Routes Without a Map (Catarata Essay Prize, 2015), Option Zero. The Forced Greening of the Cuban Revolution (2017), What to Do in Case of Fire? Manifesto for the Green New Deal (2019), co-written with Héctor Tejero, Against the Myth of Ecological Collapse (2023) and Psychogeography of There (2025).

This essay was selected as a finalist for the 1st Essay Prize “Utopias that fit in the BOE”.