#extractivism

[courtana]

Breaking news from Panama! 🟢

In a historic vote, the nation’s highest court today ruled the Minera Panamá mining contract for an open-pit mine unconstitutional, marking a WIN for biodiversity, local communities, and our planet. Panama has an opportunity now to be a leader in safeguarding precious ecosystems and protecting biodiversity. This ruling champions the rights, voices, and well-being of local communities over profit-driven interests. This victory is also a beacon of hope for our planet’s future. Safeguarding irreplaceable ecosystems like these is critical to combatting climate change and biodiversity loss. Congratulations to the people of Panama, who overwhelmingly rejected profit over planet. We continue to stand with you! Video credits: Collaboration between @duletvindigena @waguafilms @mullu.tv & Passu Creative Community Indigenous Protester - TV indígena and waguafilms Great Green Macaw - Hans Norelius, CC BY 2.0 Gemini's Dart Frog Jaime Culebras / @photowildlifetours #PanamaTeQuieroVerde #PanamáValeMásSinMinería

[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)

[feckcops]

No, capitalism isn’t democratic

“The progress brought by democracy and capitalism was supposed to give rise to yet more democracy. Checks and balances would put an end to corruption. An educated population would choose the ‘right’ leaders. And rather than campaigning based on outdated ideologies, those leaders would compete for votes by appealing to the ‘median voter’, bringing moderation to previously divided societies.

“Instead, corruption is on the rise, ideology is back, and people keep picking the ‘wrong’ leaders. Perhaps the creation of societies so stratified that the ruling class can barely comprehend the concerns of ordinary voters was not such a foolproof recipe for democracy after all ...

“Despite the fact that it is blindingly obvious that capitalist democracies require some measures to reduce inequality while tackling climate breakdown, the progressive capitalist vision for the future stands no chance of being implemented.

“There’s only one conclusion left to draw—that capitalism and democracy were never really all that compatible to begin with.”

[bunchacrunchcake]

Mom: how's your job search going?

Me: good I'm making a lot of progress

Her: the market is really bad but it usually swings up soon

Me: usually but I have a hunch that the last ten years of historic extractive capitalism, which you can see a public example of in the Reddit/Google search/Twitter/Threads collapse might be indicative of the fact that the global elite bet on climate change and are extracting as much capital as possible by spinning up as many profitable/extractive companies as possible in a short span of time in order to widen the wealth gap enough before people start rioting in the streets over climate. There's also a large chance a large portion of the job market with be automated away with ai causing larger market compet---

Mom: I'm gonna stop you right there, this is super depressing. I'm going to go. Bye!

[beingharsh]

"Radical Humidities", Stephanie Sauer, in Diagram

[anniekoh]

Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone: Standing on Vanishing Land in Coastal Louisiana

Julie K. Maldonado (2018)

Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone is an ethnography of the lived experience of rapid environmental change in coastal Louisiana, USA. Writing from a political ecology perspective, Maldonado explores the effects of changes to localized climate and ecology on the Isle de Jean Charles, Grand Caillou/Dulac, and Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribes. Focusing in particular on wide-ranging displacement effects, she argues that changes to climate and ecology should not be viewed in isolation as only physical processes but as part of wider socio-political and historical contexts.

Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country

Traci Brynne Voyles (2015)

What is “wasteland,” and who gets to decide? In Wastelanding Traci Brynne Voyles tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asks why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm, and argues that the presence of uranium mining on Diné (Navajo) land constitutes a clear case of environmental racism.

[zaryathelaika]

Came across this documentary [archived, 28:26] (CW: recreational hunting, reindeer butchery, subsistence pastoralism, anti-Indigenous racism) about Sámi people's struggle against the Swedish state broadcasted by Deutsche Welle (owned by the German state). ... And ... Found the perfect still unintentionally explaining why Sámi people are Indigenous but Swedes, Finns and Norwegians are not. This non-Indigenous person believes in the authority of the state. (You should read James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State and The Art of Not Being Governed!)

There are an awful lot of racists from Nordic countries pulling out genetic studies, anthropological records, eugenicist beliefs, ableist views and the whole nine yards rationalizng about why Sámi people are not Indigenous.

But being Indigenous is largely defined by the colonial relationship [archived, 87.1 kb, PDF] with the state which is repressive. The screenshotted frame above encapsulates everything about why Sámi are considered Indigenous. The person preaches about being good neighbours yet is willing to use the might of the state to obtain what he views as his rights instead of attempting to build long-lasting relations out of good faith.

This video "What Does It Means To Be Indigenous?" [archived, 21:57] from Saint Andrewism explains succinctly what it means to be Indigenous:

[bsahely]

From Colonial Sustainability to Life-Coherence: A Life-Value Onto-Axial Regrounding | ChatGPT4o

[Download Full Document (PDF)] Why This Paper Matters: The current sustainability discourse is failing — not because it lacks ambition, but because it is structurally incapable of prioritizing life. Dominated by extractive economics, technocratic governance, and colonial epistemologies, the sustainability industry has become a mechanism of continuity for the very systems it claims to…

[courtana]

The people of Panama are coming together to defend nature, calling on the country’s Supreme Court to declare a controversial mining project – in the protected rainforest Bosque Donoso – as unconstitutional.   This area, lying in the heart of the largest biological corridor in Mesoamerica, is a lifeline for many migratory species. It is critical to the livelihoods and cultures of local and Indigenous communities, and is home to wildlife that includes macaws, tapirs, monkeys and jaguars. This mining activity would have destructive impacts on the surrounding ecosystems, species, and people.   A global spotlight can help Panamanians win a critical victory for biodiversity and can pave the way for a more sustainable future.   Sign the petition to halt the mining project in Panama at this link: https://chng.it/dMzbJSxv7v   #PanamaTeQuieroVerde #PanamáValeMásSinMinería

Video credits: Collaboration between @duletvindigena @waguafilms @mullu.tv & Passu Creative Community    Narrated by @rosedelizg Cover photo by @enlayesk507

[anthroposcenes]

Barrick Gold Pueblo Viejo, Dominican Republic (google maps)

Read: ‘It’s a barbarity’: why are hundreds of families asking to be moved away from this Dominican Republic goldmine? (The Guardian)

Watch: Gold mining, a blessing or a curse for the Dominican Republic? (Youtube)

[lilithsaintcrow]

“The traitor’s text is an ideal, being the work that must critique both the big empires and the little ones, so the comprador’s text and the patriot’s text are also traps that await all of us who are, undeniably, from there."

[emptyanddark]

Local ecosystems and their inhabitants are sacrificed for global climate ambitions in the race for dominance over transition minerals. The scale and methods of mining operations in northern Chile are just one example of where a unique ecosystem and the ways of life of local communities are traded off for green growth.

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Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano wrote in the late 1980s about the situation on the continent of Latin America. 'This is the region of open veins. Everything, from its discovery to our time, has always been transmuted into European - or later U.S. - capital, and as such has accumulated in distant centers of power.' The situation of lithium confirms that this colonial-imperialist way of doing business operates in a green jacket today.

[beingharsh]

"Radical Humidities", Stephanie Sauer, in Diagram

[yes-lukewinter]

call it a love song. i’ll get the bathtub ready. i’m in. we in ceramic. let’s say black. i’m bp you’re shell. we all in. we in the black. we both in a barrel. call it a village. we both in the pumping. the people no get no nothing. no crabs in the river. no periwinkles to pick. no day de pas where they no dey cry suffer dis kind suffer like dis. we no care for them. i just want you to seep. blacken my lot.

Gboyega Odubanjo, Oil Music SEPTEMBER 2023 – Rebel Library

[toxaquepex]

This man will not only put the country up for sale…he is going to leave us at the mercy of the most ruthless extractivism. It is currently happening… a large part of the Aymara people have paid with blood for the occupation of their lands… lands that the businessmen and corrupt politicians are waiting for them to be empty so they can dynamite them and take their materials out… You can search for "Lithium in Jujuy" and "Constitutional Reform in Jujuy"….

They only need a little more help from someone in power to be able to raze everything to the ground…

Hi there. I never really do this kind of thing here but I need you to stop for a second and read what's about to happen in my country Argentina because this will also affect many of you.

This man in the picture is Javier Milei, a libertarian political candidate running for the presidential elections taking place this october

Argentina is not anywhere close to being a powerful country and much less an influential one. In fact we've been slowly becoming a U.S colony during the last couple of years which has really impoverished us. However, even if this man's victory won't affect the world's economy I'm sure it'll affect at least more than one of you as individuals.

In case you didn't know, Argentina is one of the very few countries that offers free and public access to both healthcare and education to both residents and non-residents. And that also includes universities.

This country is home to a very large percentage of foreigners that come every year in hopes of getting access to free education because they can't afford to pay for it back in their homelands.

Evey year hundreds of foreign students get degrees in a field of their interest here that allows them to find a job anywhere in the world, including our own country. To be honest many people hate this because, well, racism and xenophobia. But personally, it makes me very proud and hopeful that my country can guarantee this human right to so many people FROM ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Sadly, this very man Javier Milei has openly stated that he wants to abolish free access to education for everyone (among many other human rights violations) if he wins this year's elections.

I'm very sad because of yesterday's first round of elections results in which he came out first place. I'm scared that he might win the last round and become our president. And more than anything I don't want my country to loose so many of the things and rights our people fought so hard to obtain.

PLEASE LET THE ENTIRE WORLD KNOW THE FACE OF THIS MAN AND WHY HE SHOULD BE DESPISED BY THE ENTIRE WORLD.