20 percent of the world’s people own 80 percent of its resources, consume two-third of its food, and are responsible for 75 percent of its ongoing pollution with this leading to two billion of earth’s people living relative affluent lives while four billion still live on the edge of hunger and immiseration, to the dynamic overconsumption on the part of the rich techno-industrial North paralleled by that of overpopulation on the part of the dispossessed poor, still partly agrarian worlds of the South

Sylvia Wynter, Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation –An Argument

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