Gas flaring has erased the natural day-night cycle for delta villagers

Evidence

The flaring of vast volumes of gas meant that villagers spent their nights beneath an artificial sun: “The people were used to having 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night. But now their position is worse than that of the Eskimos in the North Pole. For while nature gave the Eskimos six months of daylight followed by six months of night, Shell-BP has given the Dere people about ten years of continuous daylight.” — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 306

Categorization

• CANDY: The vivid ‘ten years of continuous daylight’ image is a striking, shareable detail of extraction’s everyday distortions.
• XREF: Connects to the slow-violence harm of accumulation crossing into daily, sensory distortion of place.