Life over Lithium
By Jessica Ng
Volume 25, no. 2, Bleeding Earth
Volume 25, no. 2
Bleeding Earth
Autumn 2022
Neskantaga First Nation sees their rights eroded and livelihood encroached by Canada's mining juggernuts, all in the name of "clean energy."
Nadir Bouhmouch’s breathtaking documentary film Amussu (2019), exemplary of "art from below," breathes life into a counter-archive of Amazigh tradition and immotalizes Imider commune's ongoing anti-extractivist struggles.
Sebãstiao Salgado is like a sensitive instrument that vibrates in tune with what he is viewing and experiencing. Through his camera, he expresses solidarity and acknowledges the gifts he receives from his subjects—the exact opposite to the...
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill evokes grim, apocalyptic images. But arose from this familiar story of negligence, corporate greed, and disregard for nature belies another story of grassroots disaster response, environmental activism...
Historian of science Gregg Mitman tells the surprisingly 'American' history of Liberia, revealing the complexity of an imperial and settler-colonial project carried out ostensibly in the name of Black freedom and the scientific...
From copper in Chile, gold in South Africa, to rare earth elements in China, extraction delimits world history and the current geopolitical landscape. Natural resources are not neutral; we must understand who extracts them, where do they...
Why do I keep talking about memories?
Summer falls, and I peel open the scab
I’ve chosen not to open until now.
Oil kills everything—the land, the mangrove,
the water bodies and the creek.
In the Anthropocene era, extractivism has become a core symptom of the planetary disease of late capitalism/imperialism, threatening humanity and the inhabitants of the earth in general.
Antibiotics are extracted from soil microorganisms, whose evolution for millions of years created the molecules that fueled modern medicine. But just like fossil capitalism, expropriation of nature creates an irreparable ecological rift.
El agua es un recurso esencial para la vida. Sin embargo, surcamos desde hace años una ola privatizadora que acentúa las desigualdades en el acceso al agua. La sobreexplotación de los acuíferos, la venta de agua embotellada, la...
The extraction of financial assets in cryptocurrency requires physical space and tremendous amounts of energy. Its environmental impacts are recognized and resisted by local residents and scientists in Lake Seneca, New York.
The Andean Indigenous paradigm of Sumak Kawsay (Buen Vivir) inspires the People's Health Movement to subvert the growth-centric development models and promote health as a public good and a civil right.
A case study of Ecuador reveals the principal contradictions of extractive capitalism and claims of national and Indigenous sovereignty. The future of Ecuador's pink tide remains uncertain.
Matt Huber's new book misinterprets the reality and scale of the challenge for climate activism. Its academic prescriptions preclude discussion of multi-pronged tactics toward building mass movements in the twenty-first century.
The so-called "zero emission" electric vehicle is touted as a silver bullet solution to climate change. A look at EV's history and current supply chain reveals the logic of extractive capitalism, and why such technocratic thinking detracts...
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