On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, Professor Thea Riofrancos discusses her new book, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism.
Riofrancos traces the history of global extraction and examines how mining harms landscapes, provokes protest, takes center stage in national politics, and links countries on the peripheries of the world economy to huge corporations, commodity markets, and powerful investors.
Green solutions like electric cars come at a cost. She asks: Is it possible to save the world by harming it in the process?
Guest:
Thea Riofrancos, political science professor at Providence College, strategic co-director of the Climate and Community Institute, and author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
Resources:
The New York Review of Books: What’s Underground
Dialogue Earth: The Global South is caught between powers trying to get their resources’
Mongabay: Lithium mining leaves severe impacts in Chile, but new methods exist: Report
