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.
2/n
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.
5/n
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.
6/8
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.
7/8
Every life is worth fighting for!
#DegrowthTuesdayTeaBreak #DegrowthNow #BeyondGrowth
#DRC #Extractivism #FuckGDP #GrowthKills
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Not everybody wants / needs helping (according to them) - NOT SAVING EVERYONE is needed... those who want first...
@ScientistRebellion Just want to say I like much of the posts,
And while it doesn't serve my image I'm sure right now that those that don't want serving are not the first we should go for... there is something of an oversight and regular surprise (if you talk to people enough rather than just help as you think needed) that people don't want help and therefore are an energy drain and drag.
Nobody likes that idea but it's true like someone wanting to give you something you don't want or not believing in it and opting for #Capitalism (which I also agree with sometimes from *THEIR* point of view).
So while you have a lot of good actual solid stuff (as well as #virtuesignals I though I'd take opportunity to say #careful because help is not for everyone or to be assumed - a lot of people on #Fediverse don't even have the will or mindset to make time for others..
And that's basically the small circle which doesn't extend anywhere - and that is exactly how people want it and to close their doors after... no matter what they boost.
I'm here if you're also read to do more than post / help me find what you're doing to help you AND vice versa (always a longer 2 way thing here and everywhere to get us doing things better and long-term like #friendship eventually or at least starting something on that spectrum / not just cold work and #Tech development but PEOPLE developed and help personally which serves more in the end than small circles...)
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I do like #degrowth and such but #cocreation and giving each other space to show our warez and discover #deeper what we like for the #nuances is actually the way also (and more #creatively 'with' current #model to #transition out of it via #degrowth etc)
What do you think of this?
