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5:00 pm The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis @ Online
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis @ Online
Nov 16 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis @ Online
Online Event Location:  https://citylights.com/events-category/amitav-ghosh-in-conversation-with-raj-patel/  In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh’s new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At … Continued