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The Nature of Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources – Etkind Alexander – New Literary Review – 2024 – ISBN 978-5-4448-2166-4

The Nature of Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources
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The Nature of Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources
19.99 €
This is a book of facts and paradoxes, but it has a moral. The text connects the cultural history of natural resources with global history seen from a Russian perspective. World history began in deserts, but this book speaks more about swamps. History requires actors, but here peat and hemp, sugar and iron, fur and oil speak and act. The unevenness of available resources has been the engine of trade, and it has also led to the accumulation of wealth, the growth of inequality and the multiplication of evil. Different raw materials had different political properties and gave rise to different social institutions. Therefore, commodity dependencies rarely succeeded each other without wars and revolutions. None of these crises was wasted; they led to dramatic changes in the relationship between labor, raw materials, and the state. On the threshold of the climatic catastrophe, nature itself became involved in the human struggle to distinguish between good and evil. Our world is the result of its temporary union with man. And since we have not been able to change it, we need to understand how it works.
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