Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World: Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics, by BNRGI co-director Prof. Gregory Thaler, was published on February 27, 2024 by Yale University Press.
For two decades, land-sparing policies have promised to save tropical forests by intensifying tropical agriculture. Based on six years of research on agrarian frontiers in Indonesia, Brazil, and Bolivia, this book shows that land sparing's successes are an illusion, achieved by displacing deforestation to new frontiers. The failure of land sparing exposes the harsh truth behind green capitalism: capitalist development is ecocide.
The book is available in paperback, hardcover, and ebook formats.