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==Examples of extractivism== | == Examples of extractivism == | ||
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=== | === The exploitation of people <ref>https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-08-05/extractivism/</ref> === | ||
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* | *Exploitation for resources has appropriated human bodies in the form of slaves or, more recently, as labor-intensive workers. | ||
* | *Extractive projects are normally located near marginalized, poor, and racialized populations. These projects often diminish existing economic activities and disrupt community networks and social structures. | ||
* | *Extractive industries remove the land rights of people via cultural disruption and violence. There is sometimes an increase in prostitution and sexual violence in communities restructured by extractivism. | ||
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=== | === The exploitation of Latin America, Africa and Asia <ref>https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-08-05/extractivism/</ref> === | ||
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* | *You can’t tell the history of many colonies without talking about the looting of minerals, metals, and other high-value resources. European crowns and later the United States looted resources in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. | ||
* | *In the last 20 years, several governments in Latin America, Africa, and Asia have asserted national control over new forms of primary-production extractive industries. | ||
*Today, much of these countries experience the brunt of the climate crisis, and most are economically disadvantaged due to the exploitation that happened many years ago. | |||
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Revision as of 22:41, 18 October 2022
Extractivism is the exploitation of natural resources on a mass scale, creating significant economic profits for a few powerful people and corporations in the short term, but too often resulting in minimal benefits for the communities resources are found in; driver of displacement, health inequities, human rights violations, ecological degradation, and colonial violence - Columban Center, adapted by Michelle Xie [1]
Extractivism can be traced back more than 500 years all the way to the European colonial expansion.
Examples of extractivism
The exploitation of people [2] |
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The exploitation of Latin America, Africa and Asia [3] |
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