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Blood and earth : modern slavery, ecocide, and the secret to saving the world / Kevin Bales.
Author
Bales, Kevin
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2016]
©2016
Description
290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Availability
Available Online
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HT867 .B347 2016
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Subject(s)
Slavery
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Environmental aspects
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Developing countries
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History
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21st century
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Slave labor
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Environmental aspects
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Developing countries
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Environmental degradation
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Developing countries
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Consumption (Economics)
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Environmental aspects
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Human rights
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Summary note
"BLOOD AND EARTH is a gripping account of the deadly link between slavery and environmental destruction. Kevin Bales is a social scientist, human rights activist, and journalist -- and he's also one of the world's leading experts on modern slavery. In his work he began to notice the connection between environmental decline and slavery: the two almost always went hand-in-hand, whether in the hellish gold mines of Ghana or the miraculously beautiful mangrove forests of Bangladesh. But why? He set off to find the answer on a fascinating and moving journey that took him into the lives of modern day slaves and along a supply chain that leads directly to the cell phones in our pockets. He found solutions that redeemed both the lives of the slaves in the world's most threatened places and the environments they live in. This is a clear-eyed, inspiring, and profoundly hopeful book that brings us dramatic stories from the world's environmental and human rights hotspots and offers solutions to our most pressing crises"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Secrets
Under the volcano
The city of rags
Shrimp cocktail
The runaway train
Gold rings
The massacre of memory
As with trees, so with men
We've all got a part of the answer
You can't un-know what you know
Appendix : Organizations working in Eastern Congo.
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ISBN
9780812995763 ((hardback))
0812995767 ((hardback))
LCCN
2015008438
OCLC
911179873
Other standard number
40025632994
40025653765
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