extractivism
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English
Etymology
From extractive + -ism, originally applied to mining practices in Latin America.
Noun
extractivism (uncountable)
- Extractivist practices in the management of natural resources.
- 2022 December 8, Rosemary Collard, Jessica Dempsey, “‘Extractivism’ is destroying nature: to tackle it Cop15 must go beyond simple targets”, in The Guardian:
- 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.
- 2023, Oliver Balch, “Animal, Mineral, Pathogen”, in Literary Review, number 520:
- 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.
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extractivism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
