OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 59818

extractivism

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extractivismo
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…
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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