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This should be required reading, I cannot stop thinking about the horrors described here

A lone girl stood atop a dome of dirt, hands on her hips, eyes cast long across the barren land where giant trees once ruled. Her gold-and-indigo sarong fluttered wildly in the wind as she surveyed the ruin of people and earth. Beyond the horizon, beyond all reason and morality, people from another world awoke and checked their smartphones. None of the artisanal miners I met in Kipushi had ever even seen one.

The amount of anxiety regarding the state of the world this book is giving me—

I mean, I understand that the point is literally that the world is ruled by the greedy, but it still baffles me how people can so easily convince themselves that they aren’t responsible for the misery of others, be they massive corporation CEOs or even the average consumer. Watching the interviews of the shoppers at BHV’s SHEIN produced much the same reaction in me.

been wanting to read this for a couple years, very glad to start it