PhD Student Zahid Ali Publishes Critical Essay on Coal-mining, Infrastructure, and Resistance in Pakistan’s Thar Desert

Gorano wastewater reservoir

PhD student Zahid Ali calls attention to how an enormous wastewater reservoir, built to support lignite-coal extraction, is reshaping local ecologies and sparking community resistance in the village of Gorano in his article “Wastelanding and Resistance: Climate Knowledge, Infrastructure, and Unruly Ecologies in the Thar Desert” (published in Weather Matters).

Link: https://www.weathermatters.net/wastelanding-and-resistance

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