Green and Evil The New Empires and their Regents by Ogada Ph.D, Mordecai

The effects of climate change are beginning to manifest in extreme weather events like floods, droughts and temperature rises all over the world. In addition to that, untrammeled resource exploitation has accelerated the rate of biodiversity loss to alarming levels. ‘Green and Evil’ explores how the age-old forces of piracy, greed, capitalism and imperialism have come together to exploit what is seen by individuals, societies and nations as an existential crisis. The growth of ‘climate finance’, carbon trade, carbon offsets, and other financial instruments is fast overtaking the pace of actual reduction of emissions, which is what the environment needs. In tropical Africa, Asia, and other parts of the Global South, the capitalist driven ‘conservationists’ have usurped state agencies to facilitate the dumping of European toxic wastes and violent disenfranchisement of people to create room for hunting playgrounds, protected areas, and carbon trading agreements. This book offers an intellectual escape from the dark, imperial histories behind the ‘altruistic’ saviour complex we see in western environmentalism today. It also calls for a deliberate effort to define our environmental realities at higher resolution and reject the environmental globalism that currently serves the objectives of the greediest amongst us.