Haymarket Presents: Thea Riofrancos on Extraction

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EXTRACTIVISME, VERT ET BRUN - DIAGRAMMES

"Lorsque j’emploie le terme de capitalisme vert, je fais référence à un ensemble de forces productives déjà déployées, qui englobe à la fois des secteurs dont l’existence est justifiée par leur contribution supposée à l’effort de décarbonation – tels q...

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'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

What’s Underground

Lithium is the third element in the periodic table. It is the lightest, least dense metal—although it is never encountered as such in nature, since it’s

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Le site internet des entretiens récents du philosophe Michel Feher (d'autres vont suivre) avec des professionnels sur les thèmes suivants :

- dénis climatiques
- variétés des extrêmes droites
- resistances
- réalignements géopolitiques
- mutations du capitalisme

https://www.diagrammes.fr/en/page/about

#climato_scepticisme #extremedroite #forensic_architecture #resistance #melindacooper #eyalweizman #theariofrancos

À propos - DIAGRAMMES

Marius BickhardtResearch and direction of the Climate Denials ProgramAlexandra BucherResearch and direction of the Mutations of Capitalism ProgramMichel Fehe...

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... people’s needs — food, shelter, water, transportation — are not always explicitly connected to energy, and even when they are, there are ways to dramatically reduce the amount of energy required to meet them.
That conclusion contradicted several decades of economic theory that suggested that increased energy use and, by extension, increased consumption would always equate to a longer lifespan and improved quality of life.
“Fossil fuel use does not contribute significantly to improvements in life expectancy.”- https://theintercept.com/2023/05/08/energy-transition-electrification-consumption/

#IPCC #IntergovernmentalPanelOnClimateChange #JuliaSteinberger #Demand #SupplyAndDemand #PlannedObsolescence #TheIntercept #EnergyTransition #ExtractiveIndustry #Lithium #Chile #AtacamaDesert #TheaRiofrancos

The “Electrify Everything” Movement’s Consumption Problem

Electrification offers an opportunity to rethink how we use energy. Will we squander it?

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