A review of the book by Paul Cliteur
By Martin Kohan; translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor
By Peter Eichstaedt
By Véronique Tadjo translated from the French by Amy Baram Reid
Thanks to the combination of specialization and production chains that span the globe, we consumers rarely get to see the whole picture. This book joins the dots, showing the impacts of resource extraction on local communities and the environment, making the link between games consoles, civil war, rape and rainforest destruction.
Lierre Keith has written a passionately argued, highly personal, and deeply informative book about the destructive and unsustainable nature of modern day agriculture – but disguised it as an argument against vegetarianism.
Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World. By Wade Davis.
Anyone who offers a diagnosis of the current economic malaise and prescribes a cure, but has not read this book, doesn’t know what they’re talking about.