A review by neoludification
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh

4.5

A grandiose, sweeping diagnosis of the climate crisis and its colonialist/imperialist origins. What fascinates most is the statement that, contrary to the dogma of many (western) leftists, reducing the problem of anthropogenic climate change to a problem of political economy makes for an insufficient analysis. Ghosh loses me towards the end, when after all the huge structural problems he's analysed and critiqued so well, his solution lies in an almost naive notion of "more empathy." And surely, a vitalist politics compromises more than just telling better stories about ourselves and our environment?