I learned about indigenous people around the world that have experienced ethnocide, ecocide and genocide at the hands of multinational mining and oil companies. Thier struggles to survive and retain some semblance of their traditional values that protect and honor the earth in a world that is mostly run by corporation whose main goal is greed and profit at any cost.
One of those books that everyone should read a little of...it addresses social injustices in the realm of environmentality. Minorities have to deal with a stripped to nothing environment and the waste and the pollution and greed of others...