How the history of nutmeg interfaces with global warming

The writer, Amitav Ghosh critiques Western society and exploitative practices in his latest book The Nutmeg's Curse - Parables For A Planet In Crisis. It is a follow to his critically acclaimed book, The Great Derangement. With his work translated into more than 30 languages, Amitav Ghosh has been Man-Booker shortlisted, his essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New Republic and the New York Times, and two years ago, Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade. The Nutmeg's Curse traces the violent history of the spice which was of extreme value in the 17th Century and originated in the Banda group of Islands in Indonesia. Amitav Ghosh argues that nutmeg has huge significance in tracing Western colonialism and the exploitation of the natural environment and genocide and he believes the dynamics of climate change are rooted in the centuries-old geopolitical order.