Currently, a collaboration between Asian wood buyers, local businessmen,and members of the Government of Mozambique is stripping the slow-growing, semi-arid tropical rainforests at a rate that will extinguish all of the natural resources in 5-10 years. At the same time, Mozambique is
beginning to feel the effects of broader climate change and increased temperatures in the world’s oceans. In 2019, two cyclones devastated Northern Mozambique only one month apart causing more than $2.2 billion dollars in damage and destroying the trade and transport corridors connecting the northern and southern areas of the country. Even after aid efforts have ended, and homes and schools are rebuilt, the impact of climate change is still being seen in the ongoing erosion throughout a country that is slowing losing its trees.

Climate change is a cyclical process in which many times the perpetrators and polluters are not the ones who suffer the consequences. In “Invisible Hand,” Amilton Neves explores the links between and impact of allowing foreign corporations to operate unrestricted in the exploitation of
Mozambique’s natural resources and its effect on the environment – an impact of which the average citizen is unable to identify a cause.