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The Green Illusion: Material Debt and the Quest for Radical AccountabilityIn The Green Illusion, the contemporary global discourse on climate change is deconstructed to reveal a troubling reality: the path to ""Net Zero"" is often a sophisticated ""carbon shell game"" fueled by political opportunism and corporate deceit. While the shift to renewable energy is framed as a beacon of hope, this book argues that without radical accountability, the clean energy transition is simply ""green extractivism""-a new model of ecological degradation that reorganizes the mechanisms of dispossession under a green mantle. What You Will Discover: The Material Debt Paradox: Learn why renewable technologies are up to nine times more mineral-intensive than fossil fuels and how this creates a ""thermodynamic debt"" that the Global South is forced to pay. The Dark Side of the Battery: A deep dive into the human and environmental cost of ""white gold"" (lithium) and cobalt, from the drying salt flats of the Atacama to the humanitarian crisis in the DRC. The Architecture of Greenwashing: An exposé on how corporations use ""pseudo-CSR,"" worthless carbon offsets, and ""cognitive decoupling"" to mislead the public while maintaining the status quo. The Ghost Supply Chain: How illegal minerals are ""laundered"" into global markets, erasing their origins and allowing human rights abuses to hide behind legitimate labels. Radical Accountability: A manifesto for a new era of global governance. Explore the move from ""soft law"" to ""hard law,"" the criminalization of ecocide, and the rise of ""Material Truth"" through molecular marking and blockchain technology. Key Themes Green Extractivism: The exploitation of natural resources and ""emission rights"" for the benefit of the Global North at the expense of the Global South. The Environmental Paradox: How technologies designed to save the environment inadvertently cause new, often worse, ecological and social issues. Forensic Sustainability: The use of advanced methodologies, behavioral ethics, and counter-forensics to pierce the ""green veil"" and hold individual executives liable. The Caring Economy: Moving beyond mere resource replacement toward a fundamental reduction in consumption and the creation of a just transition for all. About the ContentThis comprehensive analysis spans ten chapters, covering everything from the psychology of corporate deceit to the ""terraforming warfare"" in modern conflicts . It synthesizes data from the High Andean salt flats to the rainforests of Mozambique to provide a stark warning: Sustainability without accountability is a dangerous fiction.

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