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Summarize what you have read Described as the "sociologist of anti-globalization", Boaventura de Sousa Santos is one of the main promoters of the World Social Forum.

This is how he presents it to us in his new essay, "The cruel pedagogy of the virus", in which he says that the covid-19 pandemic is the way in which our planet is telling us enough is enough. Will we learn? That's the big question now.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is director emeritus of the Social Studies center at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal; distinguished researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, in the United States.

Described as the "sociologist of anti-globalization", he is one of the main promoters of the World Social Forum.

In his new work, the sociologist reflects on all the lessons that this virus is leaving us, which has highlighted the inequalities of our society, of our development model, of which Santos is very critical.

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A virus capable of infecting anyone, yes, but it has targeted the most vulnerable, the poor.

"30% of the world's population lacks water," he says. "How are they going to wash their hands? They need the little water they have to eat and drink."

What follows is a summary of BBC Mundo's telephone conversation with Boaventura de Sousa Santos.

Warlike rhetoric has been used from various spheres and this virus has been described as an enemy. You refer to him as a cruel pedagogue. What is the pedagogy of this virus?

This virus is a pedagogue in the sense that it is giving us several lessons. The problem is knowing if we are going to listen to them and learn them.

It is cruel because the only way the virus has to teach us is by killing, killing innocent people, and it does so by the thousands and thousands.

What is he trying to teach us?

The virus is a pedagogue that is teaching us that Mother Earth is not satisfied with the development model we have. We are a very small, tiny part of...\nSummary in the same language as the doc:<end_of_turn>
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Considéré comme l’une des grandes références parmi les penseurs de gauche, le sociologue portugais Boaventura de Sousa Santos estime que le nouveau coronavirus est un grand pédagogue.<end_of_turn><eos>