extractivism
nounEtymology From extractive + -ism, originally applied to mining practices in Latin America.
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Extractivist practices in the management of natural resources.
- Extractivism, a term born of anti-colonial struggle and thought in the Americas, is a mode of accumulation based on hyper-extraction with lopsided benefits and costs: concentrated mass-scale removal of resources primarily for export, with benefits largely accumulating far from the sites of extraction.2022 December 8, Rosemary Collard, Jessica Dempsey, “‘Extractivism’ is destroying nature: to tackle it Cop15 must go beyond simple targets”, in The Guardian:
- Industrial extractivism (a definition that Vidal would extend to include modern intensive agriculture) has contributed to the recent freefall in bird, mammal and amphibian numbers.2023, Oliver Balch, “Animal, Mineral, Pathogen”, in Literary Review, number 520:
- Related terms
- intensive farming