A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

By Rajeev Charles Patel, Jason W. Moore,

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Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jasonā€¦

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I was born at the end of the 1980s and the majority of greenhouse gas emissions have been released in my lifetime. That means the worldā€™s emitted more since Seinfeld was first broadcast than in the previous 10 millennia of human history. But this isnā€™t just a story of the last few decades or of certain bad technologies that use fossil fuels. Itā€™s a story going back centuries, to the emergence of global systems of profit-making that impelled people across the world to seek people and nature to exploit for money. This book has been invaluable in helping me understandā€¦

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