#AmericanPrestige welcomes #TheaRiofrancos for a great interview about her book #Extraction: The Frontiers of #GreenCapitalism

https://americanprestigepod.com/episodes/7058544218
#energyTransition #greenwashing #environment #lithium #lithiumMining #extractivism #geoeconomy #politicalTheory #degrowth #ecosocialism #ecomarxism #books @bookstodon

Walk into any big box store. You will find "eco-friendly" products on shelves made from virgin plastic. Electric SUVs parked in lots paved over wetlands. Fast fashion brands selling "conscious collections" while workers earn starvation wages complete with carbon offsets sold by oil companies drilling new wells.

This is green capitalism: the attempt to sell us the same destructive system with a fresh coat of paint.

#greencapitalism

#HaymarketBooks event

#TheaRiofrancos and activist-historian Gabriel Winant for a conversation on Riofrancos’s new book, #Extraction.

live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mw5gu4LOas

#extractivism #greenCapitalism #greenwashing #energyTransition #politicalTheory #geoeconomy #environment #lithium #lithiumMining #mining #books @bookstodon

Biodiversity offsets failed to protect habitat in NSW.
Now federal Labor is about to make the same mistakes, critics warn

"Offsets were meant to be a last resort for mitigating environmental damage from development projects, but rapidly became the default. An auditor general report found the government had no strategy for ensuring the offset market delivered the required environmental outcomes."

"In plain terms, development was occurring that harmed nature, money was accumulating in the fund because there were not enough offsets to compensate for that harm and species were being pushed closer to extinction."

“Turning offsets into an easy payment option flips the whole logic of environmental protection on its head."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/15/biodiversity-offset-scheme-nsw-australia-failing-nature-protection
#biodiversity #uniqueness #conservation #offsets #markets #GreenCapitalism #RestorationContributions #ecosystem #destruction #harm #NSW #governance #regulation #BeanCounterEcology #failure #BAU #EPBCAct #extinction

#Extractivisme, vert et brun

entretien avec #TheaRiofrancos, autrice de l'ouvrage #Extraction: The Frontiers of #GreenCapitalism

https://www.diagrammes.fr/fr/folders/extractivisme-vert-et-brun

#transitionÉnergétique #capitalismeVert #mines #industrieMinière #lithium #minesDeLithium #écoblanchiment #théoriePolitique #géoéconomie #économiePolitique #livres @bookstodon

'Extraction is the material foundation of a zero-carbon world. “#GreenCapitalism” can therefore sound like an oxymoron. How can capitalism ever be green if even the technologies and infrastructures needed to harness #renewableEnergy require digging several hundred new large-scale #mines in the span of a decade?'

#TheaRiofrancos on the #lithium boom and #extractivism

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/09/17/whats-underground/
https://archive.ph/eqk3H
#energyTransition #greenwashing #mining #miningIndustry #lithiumMining

The “green transition” in the Americas is being sold as climate action, but it’s mostly a rebranded version of the same old extractivism. #Corporations and governments push #GreenCapitalism that deepens #inequality, exploits land and #labor, and sidelines Indigenous voices—all under the banner of sustainability.

Yet across the region, communities are pushing back, building real alternatives rooted in justice, autonomy, and care.

#climatecrisis
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/green-capitalism-in-the-americas-false-solutions-real-threats/