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Postmodernity is, in essence, an age of ruins. But our ruins are not like Luxor or the Acropolis, which have survived time or that resist oblivion due to their symbolic and historical grandeur. Conversely, ours are ruins without History and without time. Nothing we create seems to survive time (although what was left to us does not survive either). More than an era of ruins, Postmodernity is a great generator of waste. Environmentalism is nothing more than the artificial homeostasis of globalisation (a kind of collective photosynthesis that suddenly tries to take over all the waste of humanity). Everywhere we see an environmental boom: the «Green New Deal», «Fridays For Future», plant and animal rights (despite continuing violence against the human being). Green activists and the Greta Thunberg clan tell us about nuclear and industrial waste, but they never mention all the historical and ideological waste that we generated when we destroyed Modernity. Has anyone asked Greta Thunberg what we will do with all the waste of Modernity? What about progress? And human thought? What will happen to the fossils of history? Can they biodegrade in the information biosphere, or will they float like satellites? Does anyone know why we don’t talk about digital pollution? Where do all the leftovers from the media and networks go? And all those humans whose labours were replaced by machines? What’s more, is the human species also on the list of endangered species?