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As one world building enthusiast to another, I hope these questions help you!! These questions are aimed at your WIP White Candy.

How does the extraction of the raw materials impact the environment and working class of your world? Who are the people in charge of extraction and who are the miners? What movements in workers' rights have occurred to protect miners, if any? If there haven't been, what has prevented them and who suffers most for it?

Oh wow, a doozy of an ask! Not complaining, though. lets get to it, yeah? theres alot of background i have to cover before i get to resource extraction, cause... worlbuilding. shit's intertwined, lol.

White Candy: Tidally locked dystopia

While i know that White candy takes place on a tidally locked exoplanet, the exact size and celestial workings of said planet arent really planned out. bottom line, The planet of Belarix has 3 main zones: Sunside, Moonside, and the Dawn strip.

People inhabit both the sun-facing half of the planet as well as the frozen wasteland facing away from the sun. of course there are problems with both, but the native species of both areas do their best to survive the harsh conditions of the enviroment( being upwards of 60c in the hottest reigons of Sunside and -60 in the coldest regions of Moonside) - and the Iron rule of the Rich, who reside in the Dawn strip: a comfortable temprature zone about 1000 miles (1.6km) wide traveling the circumfrence of Belarix. Even that zone isn't perfect- we'll get to that later.

White candy is a Fantazy setting with magic, but it also has some solarpunk/steampunk elements to it. we have creatures with spirit magic, elemental magic, your typical dark and light magic, martial magic. but technological advancement is a real thing(alot of solar and wind power elements, contraptions, etc), and in the history of White Candy, certain factions, corporations, and religious groups have taken control of the Dawn strip, forming huge megacities along this area known as Dawn/twilight cities, inhabited by the rich. these settlements are often hundreds of miles wide and take up vast amounts of space for settling what is often low populations. But enough of all that- lets talk Resource Extraction.

Resource Extraction

When one says 'basic resources' or 'raw materials', the things that come to mind are water, minerals, lumber, power- stuff like that. Specifically mentioned was extraction and miners, so i'll mainly cover the extraction of ores.

Who does it? put simply, slaves and indentured servants, for the most part.

Even disregarding Dawn zone factions, Sunside and Moonside are not peaceful enviroments, for their own respective reasons. Factions and organizations war all the time, settlements pay for protection and slavers take whoever they can to sell. Slaves and Indentured servants are the majority of the workforce extracting minerals from underground in both Sunside and Moonside. However, on both sides, certain factions and guilds will hire individuals to extract minerals instead of using slaves. Each guild and faction does it differently, but most provide some level of protection to member families and have safety procedures to minimize workforce losses.

the main thing preventing movements in workers rights? well... a lack of form of government.

there's not a real "nation" anywhere in White Candy. All cities and settlements are run by a Faction, a Guild, or some other kind of organizations- with a representative making sure their organization's interests are pursued and represented. While it all depends on the organization, the benevolent ones will provide protection and generous resources while the malevolent ones will demand tithes and leave them to fend for themselves. In those benevolent factions, workers rights do exist to a degree(through public demands, protests, or gradual changes in that direction through leadership change). but for the majority, there are minimal workers rights- because "laws" are abstract and heavily vary between city to city.

much of the physical labor in White Candy goes into transport and maintenance, rather than extraction, and that makes up alot of the workforce. between that and professions that involve resource processing and magical prowess(which is heavily used in conjuction to machinery), we are NOT OSHA-compliant. Beurcrats aside, many jobs are not the safest- and you probably arent even getting paid all that well. as for who suffers the most- i mean, everyone, really, but mostly the slaves. need I say more? yes, yes i do.

Protests and rebellions have occured before but rarely lead to major change- if not supressed, a organization will simply abandon the settlement. without valuable supplies and shipements of resources, most will eventually dwindle away and die. These settlements may change hands, coming under the protection and patronage of a different faction, but that may not neccesarily be peacefull or a chaneg for the better- and aformationed raiders and slavers might get to them first.

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Enviromental Impact

There's something i didn't really think too hard about. so lets think about it now!

for mineral extraction on Moonside, there wouldn't be a huge enviromental impact. the very few wildlife living there isn't going to be impacted by the pockets of heat the inhabitants settle in to mine into the frozen mountains and the deep crust of the earth. no machine or settlement is generating enough waste heat to significantly impact the harsh, antarctica-on-steroids conditions of Moonside. I'm not an enviromentalist, but I'm pretty sure even modern machinery wouldn't efficently melt any decent part of the ice anyway- and even if Moonside inhabitants did, its to drink that water. Alot of life on Moonside is centered around geothermal wells- gysers, etc, evolved in the abscence of light.

on the Flipside, Sunside is very hot- but has more native animals than Moonside, at least closer to the surface. they mostly burrow- with a few bird-adjascent exceptions. their ecosystems have a high chance of being affected- especially because many Sunside settlements are sunk into the ground. paired with the raging storms and Cloudshield as you get closer to the Dawn Strip and the baking heat near the epicenter, its a rough enviroment and everyone is competing to survive. at least you can farm there.

of course, being a fantasy world, there are fantasical creatures on across the world- alot of wierd stuff that i explain with "magic".

Here's a more interesting question- Lumber. Originally, I had said that the Dawn strip was heavily forested, but since then i've done way more research and i have concludede that that makes no sense, Given the windwall. whats the windwall? the massive flow of air as hot air rises on Sunside, travels in the upper atmosphere to Moonside(deliering heat) and then sinks on Moonside, sending winds hundreds of km/h towards Sunside.

yeah, most trees arent built for that. So isntead, forests exist in clustered, highly specialized oasis. even then they are stunted by the rather extreme winds, and highly specialized enviroments form around them. Wood is very valuable- since most forests are protected(after a few factions realized that it's not the most renewable resource). but alot of ecosystems were definatly destroyed in the early days. The Dawn Strip is definitely the place most affected by resource extraction, since thats where the majority of life exists.

I feel now it's important(and prudent) to bring up the Adherents- a faction of spiratulists based loosely of shintoism and shinto gods. they control a huge swathe of land shielded under a powerful dome(is it a dome if the shape is irregular?), carefully curated to create their own closed ecosystem. They operate a sancturary of sorts but dont exactly preserve existing life, instead curating a perfect habitable ecosystem for their people to live in. but they do operate huge swathes of forests in their wards as well as lakes and fields. most of their infastructure is made of wood and they profit greatly off of the trade of lumber and lumber products- which doesnt destroy natural ecosystems, at least.

aside from that I... dont know what else to say. I must admit that this(enviromental impact) wasn't a topic I was exactly prepared to answer(White candy has been neglected a bit ngl). Speaking honestly, enviromental impact isnt something i think about when worldbuilding most of the time. I plan where it comes from and who does it, but the focus is away from those things that little is none is written about. But i did enjoy the question greatly and enjoyed looking through my old notes and doing some new worldbuildling for it to answer your question!

thank you much for the Ask. I hope you all have a wonderful day and please RB if you enjoyed!