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The author of The Great Derangement finds the origins of our climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the 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 colo...See More