These events, occurring hundreds of miles apart, form a sad and dangerous circuit that links Bangkok’s shoppers to Laos’ displaced villagers. To quench the city’s ever-growing thirst for electricity, Thai companies and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have collaborated with the Lao government to build hydropower dams in Laos and import the electricity across the border. Consequently, the everyday consumer practices in the Thai capital are shaping environments and livelihoods in the Lower Mekong’s hinterlands. Embedded within this network of power and consumption are injustice, inequality, and injury. Middle-class and upper-class residents of Bangkok indulge their consumer desires in huge malls. The mall owners can buy cheap electricity and reap large profits. Company executives and shareholders of Thai companies in the energy, construction, and finance sectors also enjoy the benefits of these projects, as do Lao government leaders. Simultaneously, rural communities and wildlife in Laos bear the brunt of the damaging environmental effects of these dams. While the former are forcibly resettled, the latter lose precious habitat and, for some species, are pushed ever closer to extinction.