Given the way we plunder its resources, that seems so.
The Chinese premier said he took issue with claims that "China has come to Africa to plunder its resources and practice neocolonialism.
They knew that people like us, who feel that they are entitled to dominate nature, and to plunder its resources for their own use, would inevitably mistreat and over-exploit the natural world.
"Black Panther," however, exists in an invented nation in Africa, a continent that has been grappling with invented versions of itself ever since white men first declared it the "dark continent" and set about plundering its people and its resources.
It contends that Latin America has been abused as industrialised nations plundered its natural resources, ranging from gold and silver to cocoa and cotton.
"No one thinks Tasmania should plunder its natural resources in the pursuit of short-term gains," said Colbeck.
We have plundered its natural resources, emptied its seas, scorched its earth, turned its beating heart into a toxic rubbish tip.
Their findings support the view that pirates began as a community "coastguard" after illegal foreign fishing boats had exploited Somalia's collapse to plunder its sea resources.
Iceland at the time of the novel is essentially a place administered by crooks -- the colonial Danish masters who monopolize its trade and plunder its few resources -- and populated by a drunken, despairing, loafish lot only fitfully energized by the pleasure of watching some act of public cruelty.
Foreign powers that wanted to plunder Iran for its resources couldn't rely on young people in love with Coca-Cola and French thinkers.
