Richmond Free Library and Richmond Climate Action Committee invite you to a discussion of

The Nutmeg's Curse, by Amitav Ghosh
November 15th at 7pm

Conversation will be facilitated by the RCAC and members of the community are encouraged to participate. Copies of the book are available to borrow at the Library. If you have any questions, please reach out to skrohn@richmondvt.gov.

The Nutmeg's Curse frames climate change and the Anthropocene as the culmination of a history that begins with the discovery of the New World and of the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Ghosh makes the case that the political dynamics of climate change today are rooted in the centuries-old geopolitical order that was constructed by Western colonialism. This argument is set within a broader narrative about human entanglements with botanical matter--spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels--and the continuities that bind human history with these earthly materials.

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