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To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and Climate Crisis in Africa
Nnimmo Bassey
3.75 AVERAGE
1 review for:
To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and Climate Crisis in Africa
Nnimmo Bassey
3.75 AVERAGE
TO COOK A PLANET: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa by Nnimmo Bassey (2012).
Bassey is a Nigerian enviornmental activist. The book is a history/polemic on the centuries-long destructive resource extraction - oil, diamonds, rare earth metals, water, and many other resources. He uses a pan-African lens for assessments, often going region by region.
Through colonialism and "progress", he weaves the economics with the environmental, the varying policies of colonial powers and post-colonial governments and their views on extraction and global trade, and how it relates to climate change, human rights and social justice.
"The plundering of the continent translates into direct loss of human lives..."
Bassey is a Nigerian enviornmental activist. The book is a history/polemic on the centuries-long destructive resource extraction - oil, diamonds, rare earth metals, water, and many other resources. He uses a pan-African lens for assessments, often going region by region.
Through colonialism and "progress", he weaves the economics with the environmental, the varying policies of colonial powers and post-colonial governments and their views on extraction and global trade, and how it relates to climate change, human rights and social justice.
"The plundering of the continent translates into direct loss of human lives..."