How extractive industries manage to carry on harming the planet

By Judith Verweijen, Lecturer, University of Sheffield
Alexander Dunlap, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oslo

Around the globe, concern is mounting about the unfolding climate and ecological catastrophe. Yet the extraction of natural resources through mining and energy projects continues on a large scale, with disastrous environmental consequences.

To understand how this is possible, one place to start is recognising that extraction is not just a physical engineering process. It requires social engineering as well. To…

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