What happens when you get to the last page of a book feeling a bit confused and intrigued? One that looks not just at some horrific colonial violence but also at how the very narrative of environmental conservation is born in the bowels of White supremacy, or extreme racism and the systematic use of “science” to kill, drown, murder, stamp …
There’s a haunting line in Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables For A Planet In Crisis that stayed with me long after I had finished reading the book: “.The climactic changes of our era are nothing other than the Earth’s response to four centuries of terraforming.” Terraforming isn’t a word you would normally associate with Earth. In Ghosh’s urgent and …
