> .. [ #SmokeAndAshes ]might be called the third volume of a nonfiction “Anthropocene” trilogy. Like “The Great Derangement” and “The Nutmeg’s Curse,” historical-philosophical parables about climate change and the East Indies spice trade, “Smoke and Ashes” steers the “object biography” on a corrected course away from the West. It finds the seeds of today’s global opium crisis in #ColonialStrategy — and #FreeTrade — in the East.

#AnthropoceneTrilogy by writer that doesn't like the term.