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Sometimes you'll see a certain strain of Liberal Environmentalist talk as though environmental destruction in Imperial Periphery ("Third World") nations is the result of some personal failing of the people living there; that they're only cutting down trees and eroding the soil because they're too stupid and/or greedy to do otherwise. When in reality your average "third world" peasant knows very well how much they rely on their surrounding ecosystems to live and develops a pretty good idea of the deleterious impacts their action have. Their actions are a result of pure desperation; the grinding poverty forced onto them by Imperialism means living like this is the only chance they have at feeding themselves and their families for another day. The charcoal sellers around Lichinga (Niassa Province, Mozambique) in the 2000s provide a good example of this dynamic in practice:
The charcoal vendors also complain. They cycle with 3 or 4 huge bags of charcoal, easily exceeding their own weight, from as far as 80 kms away, pushing their bikes up the many hills. It is hard work to cut the trees, put them in heaps, cover them in grass and mud, burn them in a very controlled way, then load the bags and get them to Lichinga to sell them for $2 a bag of 25 kg - $6-8 per trip if they are lucky. If there was another way to earn this money locally, they wouldn't do this, they said. And they knew that the forest was fast being destroyed, moving further and further away, but what to do? As they say: 'Poverty sucks your bones dry'.
Joseph Hanlon & Teresa Smart (2008) Do bicycles equal development in Mozambique. Boydell & Brewer
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