Tag: The Plundered Planet
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Wish you were mine: Resource nationalism in Africa
Economist: Wish you were mine: Resource nationalism in Africa African governments are seeking higher rents and bigger ownership stakes from foreign miners. THE true extent of Africa's vast wealth of resources is hard to guess. Geologists have picked over most of the rest of the globe in search of minerals, yet huge swathes of Africa…
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Paul Collier on Moralistic Conceptualizations of Climate Change
From Paul Collier's The Plundered Planet: Why we must – and how we can – manage nature for global prosperity: … The moral discourse on global warming starts from the attribution of blame, or, to return to the caricature of medieval Christian theology, of guilt. Industrial capitalism is guilty of polluting the world with carbon…
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Paul Collier on Sustainability and Nonrenewable Resources in Emerging Nations
I've been reading Paul Collier's The Plundered Planet: Why We Must – And How We Can – Manage Nature for Global Prosperity. He is writing about natural resource extraction in emerging nations and its impact on local economies. I thought this excerpt was especially helpful: We have now reached the heart of what is distinctive…