The Bitter Harvest - Part 1: The Monopsony of the Bean
·866 words·5 mins
How the Rwandan state transformed coffee cultivation into a tool for population monitoring and wealth extraction.
Development and Inequality
Five Centuries of Occupation: The Geography and Duration of European Colonialism
·2034 words·10 mins
A data-driven look at which European powers colonized the most land, for the longest time, and what the numbers reveal about the structure of empire.
The Great Enclosure - Part 3: Re-enchanting Politics and the Restoration Story
·661 words·4 mins
Proposing a restoration story to reclaim democracy from neoliberalism.
The Great Enclosure - Part 2: The Tollbooth Economy and the Loneliness Epidemic
·662 words·4 mins
Examining how privatization creates tollbooth economies and leads to social isolation.
The Great Enclosure: How Neoliberalism Turned Citizens into Consumers
·304 words·2 mins
A systemic X-ray of neoliberalism, turning citizens into consumers, a tollbooth economy extracting rent from essentials, and shifting blame onto individuals. The fix, a restoration story built on cooperation, commons, and participatory democracy.
The Great Enclosure - Part 1: The Blank Slate and the Birth of the Consumer
·690 words·4 mins
Exploring the origins of neoliberalism from the Madeira deforestation to the 1938 Paris conference.
The Carbon Illusion – Part 5: From Minas Gerais Furnaces to Hamburg’s "Sustainable" Subway
·794 words·4 mins
Following the Industrial Footprint #
The Carbon Illusion – Part 4: Certification Compromised: When Audits Ignore Violence and Water Loss
·772 words·4 mins
The Assurance of the Green Seal #
The Carbon Illusion – Part 3: The Myth of the Monoculture: Why Native Savannah Stores Triple the Carbon
·747 words·4 mins
Challenging the Plausibility of Industrial Reforestation #
The Carbon Illusion – Part 2: The Dark Engine of Charcoal: Burning the Carbon Sink
·793 words·4 mins
The Illusion of Climate-Friendly Monoculture #