#extractivism

[creature-wizard]

Mother Earth doesn't need your healing energies, she needs the end of extractivism!

[caribbeanart]

Neo-colonialism in the Caribbean

Local economies are pitted against global powers and can't compete, creating desperate conditions and power imbalances that lead to violence, poverty, crime, economic dependency and social unrest.

Major Players

Food industry: Countries like the U.S. export food to Caribbean countries at cheap prices that local farmers can't compete with

Banking: Foreign banks own all of the money making countries dependent

Mining: Global powers like China extract local resources through the mining industry with no benefit to locals or the environment

Tourism: Foreign-owned tourism industry takes land from the coast putting local fisherman and tourism out of work and permanently destroying and polluting marine life and habitats

Contributing Factors

Lack of access to free public education makes families have to choose between sending their children to school or supporting the family

Land and power are owned by global powers creating a hierarchy where lighter skin means access to wealth

Education is limited based on financial capacity further limiting access to work

[thhe-raccoon]

Roger Waters spitting at the names of f*scists in positions of power all over the world.

An icon. Can´t believe I couldn't find this here before I posted it.

Go check his whole video! Free Palestine! Free all the people oppressed by f*scists!

Thanks for mentioning Noboa, he needs to be taken down asap before he gets away with poisoning all of Ecuador's water, taking away people's and nature's rights from the constitution and destroying our social security systems.

Transcription under the cut because I want you to research all of their names and see how most (if not all) of them are willing to sacrifice Palestine and all of us for power and wealth. No one will be free until we all are!

We are here at the Brandenburg gate today armed with love and truth to say "No, ¡nada más!" Herr Steinmeier, Mister Starmer, President Trump, Monsieur Macron, Netanyahu, Noboa in Ecuador, Milei in Argentina. All of you. This is the end of the road for you and your kind. We are many, you are few. And we are not lemmings, we are human beings. We will not move one solitary inch closer to your Armageddon.

[pefkaes]

"Extractivism means the production of waste, of dilapidated lands, rivers, seas and oceans, animals, plants and peoples. It is an economy that leaves behind ruins, ravaged forests, spoiled soil and subsoil, and exhausted bodies left to die. If "waste," Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams have argued, is "a sign of capitalism's success," then I wanted to understand cleaning and caring within that economy of extraction, ruination and exhaustion and the repressive norms of hetero-patriarchy."

— Vergès, F. (2021). A Decolonial Feminism (Ashley J. Bohrer, Trans.). Pluto Press. (Original work published 2019)

[asg-stuff]

“We live in a world that is constantly trying to eradicate, eliminate, and undo who we are, and to destroy our culture, language, territory, education system, and traditions through extractivism and racism,” she says. “In this context, speaking your language, wearing traditional clothing and face paint, and being part of your community, are acts of resistance.” (In the Ecuadorian Amazon, Wituk Face-Painting Is an Act of Resistance | Vogue)

[her-moth]

‘Extraction and assimilation go together. Colonialism and capitalism are based on extracting and assimilating. My land is seen as a resource. My relatives in the plant and animal worlds are seen as resources. My culture and knowledge is a resource. My body is a resource and my children are a resource because they are the potential to grow, maintain, and uphold the extraction-assimilation system. The act of extraction removes all of the relationships that give whatever is being extracted meaning. Extracting is taking. Actually, extracting is stealing—it is taking without consent, without thought, care or even knowledge of the impacts that extraction has on the other living things in that environment. That’s always been a part of colonialism and conquest. Colonialism has always extracted the indigenous—extraction of indigenous knowledge, indigenous women, indigenous peoples . . . Children from parents. Children from families. Children from the land. Children from our political system and our system of governance. Children—our most precious gift. In this kind of thinking, every part of our culture that is seemingly useful to the extractivist mindset gets extracted. The canoe, the kayak, any technology that we had that was useful was extracted and assimilated into the culture of the settlers without regard for the people and the knowledge that created it.’

- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

In conversation with Naomi Klein

[zinjanthropusboisei]

"Though the domestic and international landscape remains unclear, a majority of actors within the U.S. critical minerals sector maintains a positive outlook on the impacts of the Trump presidency on their industry. They underline that the new administration is likely to streamline permitting processes and consolidate Federal financial support after the appointment of pro-business and pro-energy department heads. So far, however, the neo-illiberal turn initiated under the Biden administration and turbocharged by the Trump administration under a blunt agenda alienating many communities and traditional foreign allies has failed to produce the expected results."

Critical minerals guys 🤝 geothermal guys: yayyyy slash those permitting requirements! Death to the NEPA! Wait what do you mean we can't import anything and everybody hates us"

[quixoticanarchy]

“One of the agreements tacitly made by consumers with [global extractive] industries is that extraction and its costs will remain mostly out of sight, and therefore undisturbing to its beneficiaries. Those industries understand the market need for alienated labour, hidden infrastructure and the strategic concealment of both the slow violence of environmental degradation and the quick violence of accidents.” 

Underland, Robert Macfarlane