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Article from "What Matters" looks at scenes from the Niger River Delta Book of photo essays looks at 18 environmental, economic and other issues By Michael Watts Photographs by Ed Kashi The following is an excerpt from "What Matters," the latest book by "Day in the Life" series creator David Elliot Cohen. For more information, see whatmattersonline.com In the Ogoniland village of Kpean, an oil wellhead that was leaking for weeks turns into a raging inferno. Addiction exposes the deepest forms of physical and psychological dependency. It is typically considered a personal affliction or an individual failing. But the deadly solicitations of any addictive substance -- cocaine, alcohol, nicotine -- rely upon a social, economic, and political infrastructure. The great behavioral scientist Gregory Bateson, who studied addiction at... [read full story]
