Gladwyn d’Souza<p>“They exist at the edge of human <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>life</span></a> in an <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>environment</span></a> that is treated like a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>toxic</span></a> dumping ground by foreign <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mining</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/companies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>companies</span></a>. Millions of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>trees</span></a> have been <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/clearcut" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>clearcut</span></a>, dozens of villages razed, rivers and air <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/polluted" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>polluted</span></a>, and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/arable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>arable</span></a> land destroyed. Our daily <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/lives" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lives</span></a> are powered by a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>human</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>environmental</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/catastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>catastrophe</span></a> in the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Congo</span></a>.”</p><p>Excerpt From<br />Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara<br /><a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/cobalt-red/id1624502755" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books.apple.com/us/book/cobalt</span><span class="invisible">-red/id1624502755</span></a><br />This material may be protected by copyright.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/greencolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>greencolonialism</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lumumba</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/KleptocraticState" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KleptocraticState</span></a></p>