[Ost-news] Slavery and Fossil Fuels

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Slavery and Fossil Fuels  
Charles Justice

The nineteenth century global economy was a like a small scale version of  
today's global economy. Trade in slaves, sugar, coffee, tobacco, and cotton were  
the drivers of global economic growth. But the growing trade in the above  
mentioned non-human commodities was first made possible by slave labour in  
plantations in the tropics and the American South.

In our modern global economy, cheap fossil fuels have taken the place of slaves.  
Industrial farming, convenient travel by automobile, and the transportation of

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