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DTTB: Extractivism Chapter 4 Violence & Hope - Part 1. Part 2 later today - a double bill for our #degrowth series
In previous posts we showed examples of extractivism in Nigeria, Peru and India, but our thoughts go to the lives affected by this in THE ENTIRE MAJORITY WORLD.
#DegrowthTuesdayTeaBreak #DegrowthNow #BeyondGrowth #Extractivism
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The capitalist extractivist system is inherently violent in that it cannot function without someone's cheap, dehumanizing and (health-)degrading labour. It needs the removal of people from their lands to steal energy resources from them.
It demands the displacement of humans from their land to capture native resources.
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When a group refuses to provide the energy needed (labour/resources), they are met with violence.
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These power dynamics are kept alive through debt. The modern global debt architecture and its need for economic growth, because of interest, locks us into a pathway to mass extinction.
The power dynamics are also kept alive through bombs. Bombs made with the energy that is extracted exactly where they then impact!
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All of this violence for what?
FOR PROFIT!
More extractivism to lose ourselves... In our phones, in our to-do lists, in our overconsumption.
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Despite all these systems of death, people fight for life. On the ground, the social protest, resistance and mobilisation articulated under the umbrella of the environmental movements are symptoms of people's struggle to try to get control over their livelihoods, which are being violently taken from them.
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Because life hangs in the balance.
In the graph we see that the Human Development Index (HDI) of DRCongo is half of the HDI of Belgium, who colonized DRC for decennia.
Extractivism has increased exponentially but neither the HDI of Congo nor of Belgium have changed much over time.
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Every life is worth fighting for!
#DegrowthTuesdayTeaBreak #DegrowthNow #BeyondGrowth
#DRC #Extractivism #FuckGDP #GrowthKills
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@ScientistRebellion thanks for this thread. May I suggest putting a link to https://www.debtforclimate.org/history in it rather than just in image?
On a similar note: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114063543319428238