"Use It and Lose It: The Political Economy of Personal and Planetary Profits" (originally published in Spanish as "Uselo y tírelo") is an essay by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, first published in 1994. The essay is part of his book "The Book of Embraces" (El libro de los abrazos).

Latin American Ecology: Unlike mainstream ecological movements of the time, Galeano’s approach is deeply social and political. He links environmental pillage to the same systems of exploitation he detailed in his famous work, Open Veins of Latin America.

The book's title serves as a central metaphor for a consumerist system that "devours men and lands only to discard them when exhausted". Core Themes and "Stories" within the Book

Don Celso opened the book to the last page. In the margin, someone had handwritten: