The economics of abundance
Ersun WarnckePrimedia Inc
On December 1, 2008 Global Witness released a report entitled A Rough Trade. This report detailed the role of diamond sales in financing Angola's civil war. From this seed the idea of "conflict diamonds" sprouted and grew.
A decade later the more provocatively titled Blood Diamond was released to worldwide audiences. Blood Diamond told the same story, but with Leonardo DiCaprio narrating, managed to reach a slightly larger audience.
Blood Diamondwas the icing on the cake for a decade long campaign to create a new...