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i love how direct this book is! it really is a no-nonsense guide 🤍

very anticolonial! we stan!

"National and state population averages for any indicator obscure the modern obsession with measurable indicators and synthesized comparative data that what is unmeasurable or unavailable becomes excluded from analysis. This helps reduce the visibility of many groups of disadvantaged people and allows false assumptions to be made about improvements in their lives." p.54

"The destruction of traditional forms of livelihood based on the natural environment amounts in certain places to a creeping form of genocide. ... The benefits of the modern world that might cushion people's livelihood losses or assist their transition to an economically viable substitute are frequently deployed so as to destroy them."