This Rare Earth: Building the Dams, Mines and Megaprojects that Run our World
This Rare Earth is a graphic account of twenty-five years working for some of the largest mining and engineering companies in the world.
"Far From Accepting The Role Of 'Bad Guy,' Gilmer Forces Us To Confront The Realities Of What Capitalism Demands Of The Earth."
Holly Hogan, GG-Award-nominated author of Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist.
“Gilmer Has An Extraordinary Story To Tell, But The Treat Is In Its Telling—The Deft, Supple Prose, The Care In Every, Paragraph, Page.”
David Huebert, author of Oil People“Practical and poetic, Gilmer guides us through our collective history with extraction while offering wisdom on forging better path ahead.”
Karen Pinchin, author of Kings of Their Own Ocean
Jeremy Thomas Gilmer is a writer, traveler and consultant. Born in Canada he spent his first years in Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Spain, Switzerland and Jamaica before returning to Canada.
His fiction writing focuses on the stories and spaces in between our present and future, creating characters and stories which echo the fragile world we live in and the shifting ground beneath our feet.