The Extraction Mentality

Why Capitalism isn’t our main problem

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We often read that our problem with fighting climate change isn’t burning fossil fuels itself, it is consumption. Then we hear that even consumption wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for something much deeper, namely capitalism.

But we can go even further than that — it is not just capitalism, it is extraction — something that is a…