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"At the biodiversity Cop taking place in Montreal, much attention will focus on
a policy proposal calling for 30% of the planet’s land and oceans to be
protected by 2030, known as 30x30. Protected areas have their place in
addressing the biodiversity crisis, but we also know that they are
insufficient. Since the 1970s, they have increased fourfold globally, expanding
to about 17% of the planet, but extraction rates have more than tripled. This
unrelenting expansion of forestry, mining, monoculture farming and fossil fuel
developments is a central driver of biodiversity loss. Ending or at least
reducing “extractivism” must be front and centre at Cop15.
Extractivism is more than extraction. Extraction is the not inherently damaging
removal of matter from nature and its transformation into things useful to
humans. 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 mass-scale removal of resources primarily for
export, with benefits largely accumulating far from the sites of extraction.
One estimate puts the drain south to north at a staggering $10tn (£8tn) a
year."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
