Nickel mining activities in Halmahera, North Maluku, Indonesia. Image by Christ Belseran/Mongabay Indonesia.

[8/8] La transition énergétique mondiale repose sur des minerais dits "verts", mais leur extraction renforce déforestation, dépendance au charbon et inégalités territoriales, déplaçant les coûts environnementaux vers les marges du système mondial. #geography #extractivism #USA #Indonesia

US-Indonesia trade deal slammed as ‘extractive colonialism’ over mining, fossil fuels JAKARTA — Environmental activists are sounding the alarm over a new trade agreement between the U.S. and Indonesia that they warn could accelerate mining expansion, fossil fuel dependence and forest l...

[1/8] Hans Nicholas Jong analyse un accord commercial entre #USA et #Indonesia, centré sur les minerais stratégiques et l’énergie. Cet accord pourrait reconfigurer les territoires en renforçant un modèle extractif au détriment des équilibres environnementaux. #geography #extractivism #deforestation

[6/6] Le territoire devient un espace de tension entre protection et exploitation. Près de 22.565 km² sont classés zones protégées, soit presque la moitié du territoire, révélant un arbitrage constant entre conservation écologique et développement économique. #HGGSP #geography #extractivism #Canada

Canada invests $1m into mining exploration on Indigenous land A First Nation in Canada’s subarctic Northwest Territories has received C$1.5 million ($1.1 million) in federal funding to explore for elements on its traditional lands. The Tłı̨chǫ own a 39,000-squar...

[1/6] Shanna Hanbury décrit un projet lancé dans le nord du Canada où la nation autochtone Tłı̨chǫ, qui contrôle un vaste territoire de 39.000 km², engage avec l’État une exploration minière pour valoriser ses ressources et renforcer son autonomie économique. #HGGSP #geography #extractivism #Canada

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"Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world. For years, the work of African data labelers has been more or less “ghost work,” the unseen, hidden labor that lets American tech companies build their products."

'AI Is […]

🎬 La Hija del NO (2025), by Silvina Hermosa
Film screening + discussion with the director

📅 April 27 | 16:00–18:00
📍 Mercè Rodoreda Auditorium (UPF)
A powerful story of environmental resistance and collective action🌱
🎟️ Free entry
#UPF #EnvironmentalJustice #Extractivism
@ibei.org @upf.edu

Post 2/4: We pause to reconnect with all that gives us life, an act of refusal against the violence, fragmentation, and separation caused by racial capitalism, militarism, imperialism, colonialism, neoliberalism, and #extractivism.

#openaccess #extractivism #sociallicense #ecuador #goldmining #USA #fracking

Women´s organized resistance against extractivism: A systematic review In parallel with the exponential increase in extractivism around the world, comes social movements resisting such processes and advocating for alterna…

Finally out with Vasna Ramasar and Muriel Cote!
We find that the motivations for gendered resistance and the strategies of resisting are nuanced and leading to sophisticated analysis of the challenges of extractivism . #OA #extractivism #gender
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yellow, black and white promotional graphic detailing the logistics of the workshop, titled "Playing Against Extraction": Sunday April 12, 2026, 11am to 1:30pm at CONTACT Gallery, 80 Spadina Ave Suite 205, Toronto. All are welcome! RSVP via the link in bio

Join us on April 12 at CONTACT Gallery in Toronto and be among the first to play-test our pilot game! Together, we'll explore how the city’s landmark institutions—from the Toronto Stock Exchange to banks and universities—sustain Canadian #extractivism. 2/3

Exploring social and ecological costs in the race for AI dominance, see worldacademy.org/extra-monthl...
EXTRA is planning a webinar and a special issue of our Newsletter on the theme of water security in May.

#WaterSecurity #WaterCrisis #AI #Extractivism #AIRisks #CircularEconomy #Sustainability

#Nunavut has a total provincial budget is about $3.5 billion. At the same time, the government of Canada acknowledges that a quarter of its population live in poverty and third face food insecurity. #Carney's #militarism and #extractivism come with a price tag.

🚨 Upcoming WAAS Webinar

Is extractivism fueling the global polycrisis? Join leading experts for a timely online discussion on the political economy of anthropogenic risks.

🔗 Register: worldacademy.org/is-extractiv...

#WAAS #Polycrisis #Extractivism #GlobalRisks

From Davos to Gaza, financial and political control transforms devastation into opportunities for investment and strategic dominance.
By Sher Ali Khan

Read more: thefridaytimes.com/11-Feb-2026/...

#US #imperialism #rulesbasedorder #GlobalSouth #debt #extractivism #Gaza #redevelopment

Operations Of Abandonment: US Imperialism From Davos To Gaza Carney’s Davos remarks and Gaza redevelopment plans reveal how US imperial power reshapes debt, extraction and instability to preserve global control

Global power and extraction shape lives, debt, and labour, leaving populations in chronic precarity while corridors of wealth stay intact.
By Sher Ali Khan

Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/11-Feb-2026/...

#US #imperialism #rulesbasedorder #GlobalSouth #debt #extractivism #Gaza #redevelopment

Comemos del Canal y el Canal nos come a nosotros Hace poco más de dos años, las calles de Panamá se llenaron de multitudes que exigían el cierre de la mina concesionada a Minera Panamá. Aquella victoria fue celebrada como un hito de soberanía ecológ...

In my latest op-ed for La Prensa de Panamá, I explore the “Faustian pact” of our development model. When Neopanamax vessels are prioritized over local water needs, we must ask: who truly owns whom?

🔗: www.prensa.com/opinion/come...

#Panama #PoliticalEconomy #Extractivism #CriticalAnalysis

A summit that claims to advance a #CleanEnergy future while sidestepping land dispossession, labor exploitation, environmental destruction, and neocolonial power dynamics is not charting a #JustTransition. It is rebranding #extractivism. (4/5)

Alternatives to Extractivism: Last Hope for Protecting ‘What Has Not Yet Been Lost’ | Heinrich Böll Foundation | Southeast Asia The Philippines, a nation rich in minerals, stands as a stark example of extractivism, prioritizing resource exploitation for export despite devastating environmental and social costs.

The #Philippines, a nation rich in minerals, stands as a stark example of extractivism. This article delves into the uphill battle these communities face, exploring proposed legislative alternatives and the critical concept of "habitability".

#mining #transitionmineral #extractivism

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15/01/26: Greenlanders fear Trump’s desire for minerals

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#CoversProject #DailyQuote #OnKawara #ArtAsWitness #MassVsIndividual #Geopolitics #Greenland #Extractivism #Trump #ContemporaryArt

[5/5] Pour Imran Shaikh, Oman voit cette résolution comme une étape. Une version renforcée pourrait être proposée à l’UNEA-8 en 2027. L’épisode révèle les tensions géographiques entre souveraineté minière, gouvernance globale et justice environnementale. #geography #extractivism #justice

Minerals treaty proposed by Colombia & Oman gets pushback at UN meeting A proposed Colombia–Oman minerals treaty met resistance at UNEA-7, highlighting divisions over binding global standards for mining impacts.

[1/5] Aimee Gabay analyse un projet de traité international sur les minerais proposé par la Colombie et Oman lors de la 7e Assemblée de l’ONU pour l’environnement. Le txt visait à encadrer les impacts sociaux et écologiques de l’extraction minière à l’échelle mondiale. #geography #extractivism

Comprendre l’intervention américaine au Venezuela On ne peut pas comprendre l’enlèvement de Nicolas Maduro si l’on ignore les masses financières colossales associées à un changement de régime à Caracas.

Must read by @gabrielzucman.bsky.social ⬇️
Understanding the American intervention in Venezuela:
The kidnapping of Maduro cannot be understood if ignoring the colossal sums of money associated with regime change in Caracas
#oil #extractivism #Venezuela #US

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Rich in resources
Poor in sovereignty
Disposable: a valuable prize.
#Extractivism
#Geopolitics

Map showing the Atacama and its geographical context. Andean salt flats are represented in light blue, conservation areas in green, urban areas in red, main roads in orange, and surface lakes and lithium evaporation ponds in dark blue. Crédits ©Hernán Bianchi B.

[8/8] #Atacama apparaît comme un "oasis de contradictions". La transition énergétique globale y intensifie les inégalités socio-écologiques. Les auteurs plaident pour une gouvernance territoriale intégrant justice environnementale, savoirs locaux et limites biophysiques. #geography #extractivism

Image à la une. Kiruna (Suède). Quand la mine creuse sous la ville Kiruna est une petite ville de l’extrême nord de la Suède, née de l’extraction de fer. L’activité minière est omniprésente dans le paysage, par son emprise visuelle et sonore et par son importance éco...

[1/8] @geoconfluences.bsky.social Lætitia Balaresque (Univ Grenoble Alpes) analyse #Kiruna, ville minière du nord de la #Suède où l’extraction de fer structure le territoire, l’urbanisme et les rapports sociaux, jusqu’à imposer le déplacement d’1 partie de la ville.
#geography #extractivism #Arctic

We need global binding rules for energy-transition mineral extraction As the energy transition gets underway, we need a new set of rules for mineral extraction to protect nature and human rights

“ #Mining is destroying our homes: We need global binding rules for mineral extraction
Amid a rush for minerals needed for the #energytransition, voluntary safeguards and corporate goodwill are insufficient to protect nature and #humanrights”
#extractivism
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/12/08/w...

What’s sold as “energy sovereignty” & “digital revolution” risks making Argentina a new kind of colony: ruled by algorithms, powered by lithium, governed by capital.

By: Gustavo Robles
#Argentina #SiliconPampa #Extractivism #DigitalColonialism #AI #Lithium #GlobalSouth

Argentine: des opposants au président Milei se mobilisent pour la protection des glaciers Des manifestants se mobilisent pour défendre les glaciers argentins alors que le président Javier Milei lorgne sur les ressources naturelles qu’ils renferment, et veut modifier la loi qui les protège....

[1/3] La protection des glaciers argentins devient un enjeu territorial majeur. Dans 30 villes, des manifestants défendent une loi de 2010 qui préserve glaciers et zones périglaciaires, essentiels aux réserves d’eau douce du pays. #geography #glaciers #extractivism #Argentina

Art as a weapon We recognise how narratives are vehicles of power, as they shape who is seen as Human, who is believed, and whose suffering matters

In case you missed it… from Peru

#extractivism #amazonia