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Bassey shows how the exploitation of Africa's resources has delivered huge profits to the North and huge damage to Africa's environment and economies. Africa can overcome the crises of its environment and global warming but the issues around the extraction of raw materials, corporate profiteering and climate change must be considered together.
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Arguing that the climate crisis confronting the world today is rooted mainly in the wealthy economies’ abuse of fossil fuels, indigenous forests, and global commercial agriculture, this important book investigates how Africa has been exploited and how Africans should respond for the good of all. As it examines the oil industry in Africa and probes the causes of global warming, this record warns of its insidious impacts and explores false solutions. Demonstrating that the issues around natural resource exploitation, corporate profiteering, and climate change must be considered together if the planet is to be saved, the book suggests how Africa can overcome the crises of environment and global warming.
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