NEW YORK - Author Amitav Ghosh's latest book, The Nutmeg's Curse, is a searing account of Western colonialism's violent exploitation of the natural environment and the colonised.
Subtitled "Parables For A Planet In Crisis", it argues that it is in colonialism that the origins of the contemporary climate crisis lie.
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