The Nutmeg’s Curse (Buch von 2021)

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Amitav Ghosh: The Nutmeg’s Curse. Parables for a Planet in Crisis. John Murray, 2021.

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Arguing that the dynamics of climate change are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism, Ghosh uses the story of the nutmeg as a parable to reveal the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials – spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels. He shows that the current crisis is ultimately the result of a mechanistic view of the earth, where nature exists as a resource for humans to use for our own ends, rather than a force of its own.