• sfgifz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    On the other hand, if countries like UK didn’t have the consumption demand to buy these resources there’d be less environmental damage because of less extraction.

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      No, no it’s their fault for making it. Just like Africa should of never of had all those juicy natural resources and available slaves. It was their fault.

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        Most of the slaves were captured by Africans in wars fought for slaves. European slave raids happend, but mostly Europeans just bought the slaves from African leaders. That is one of the reasons Africa is so fragmanted today. As more local power mean more potential targets to raid and the smaller you are the less you have to share the wealth from the slave trade.