[113-2, 2025]
"Extractivist Fractures in the #Atacama Desert: An Oasis of Contradictions"

>> The article examines the socioecological ‘fractures’ emerging from lithium extraction in the #AtacamaSaltFlat, a massive, high-altitude saline formation on the Chilean Andean #Mountain Range, and one of the world’s richest #lithium reserves. Conceptualized as an ‘oasis of contradictions,’ the Atacama’s territory is simultaneously, a site for the global ‘green’ transition and a space of deepening #dispossession—where transnational demands for lithium collide with Indigenous territorialities.

https://journals.openedition.org/rga/15648
#Chili #extractivism #IndigenousPeople

The United States is destroying itself - Rebecca Solnit

"Although there are far worse things about the utterly gratuitous and literally unjustified war on Iran, the fact that it burns through billions a day is striking, given that huge cuts are being made to environmental protection and national parks, and the forest service is being effectively sabotaged, while public lands are being offered up to fossil fuel companies and mining interests. The forest service headquarters are being moved across the country, which will probably cause many resignations, like the similar move of the Bureau of Land Management in Trump’s first term. More than 50 forest service research stations are being cut, meaning more loss of irreplaceable ongoing research, data, facilities and staff." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction

The list rings a bell...

#destruction #environment #conservation #biodiversity #PublicLands #FossilFuelIndustry #FossilFuels #climate #NationalParks #forests #science #democracy #UltraWealthy #cutbacks #msm #extractivism #mining

Some reading on our climate:

The Journal of Environmental Research Letters - Editor's Choice Awards
https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1748-9326/page/Best_article_awards

Some random choices:

Estimating the sea level rise responsibility of industrial carbon producers
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adb59f

Potential impacts of marine carbon dioxide removal on ocean oxygen
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ade0d4

Interplay between climate and carbon cycle feedbacks could substantially enhance future warming
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adb6be

Weather disasters and their underreported transboundary impacts on Amazonian communities
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae20a7

Key drivers and pressures of global water scarcity hotspots
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad3c54

Dams and tribal land loss in the United States
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acd268

Achieving net-zero emissions in agriculture: a review
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acd5e8

Extreme heatwave over Eastern China in summer 2022: the role of three oceans and local soil moisture feedback
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acc5fb

Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5°C
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6228

Unmasking the impunity of illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: a call for enforcement and accountability
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5193

Global warming and population change both heighten future risk of human displacement due to river floods
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abd26c

Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab83a7

Feedback between drought and deforestation in the Amazon
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab738e

The effects of climate extremes on global agricultural yields
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab154b

#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #freshwater #ecosystems #ocean #deoxygenation #IndigenousePeoples #dispossession #GHG #deforestation #heatwaves #bushfires #agriculture #extractivism

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/06/amoco-bp-oil-kargi-kenya-cancer/?

#Amoco #BP #Cancer #Capitalism #Extractivism #FossilFuels #Kenya

Mindbogglingly tone deaf for a day like today.

I think I've had enough of American Grotesque for tonight....

Let's see if we can build a #BetterWorld tomorrow.

#americans #grotesque #imperialism #tonedeaf #ignorance #extractivism #conquest #missioncontrol #nasa #imperialisme #ResourceWars #ArtemisII #colonialism #usa #space #moonmission #lunarexploration #theworldisnotenough #dontbeevil #dobetter

It is the Australian story for biodiversity:
"The swift parrot’s distinctive call was recorded dozens of times in a patch of Tasmanian forest. Then the forest was logged" >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/06/the-swift-parrots-distinctive-call-was-recorded-dozens-of-times-in-a-patch-of-tasmanian-forest-then-the-forest-was-logged

#Biodiversity #birds #wildlife #SwiftParrot #loggingImpacts #forestry #ClearFelling #extractivism #harm #governance

I wrote this as Ontario gutted its endangered species protection and Alberta plans to reroute water to support data centres and O&G. I think it hits even harder as the U.S. exempts O&G from endangered species protection in the Gulf of Mexico
https://lawrencenault.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-ecosystems

#ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalJustice #Biodiversity #EndangeredSpecies #Extractivism

[113-2 | 2025]

"#Mining and #Mountain Environments in Southern #Mendoza (#Argentina)"

> In the departments of #SanRafael and #Malargüe a large number of mining ventures were developed at different scales according to a #geology equally diverse and rich in mineral resources, both in the #Andes Mountain Range. The exploitation of these deposits, which exceeds the traditional metalliferous variety, led to diversification of extraction and, in some cases, the transformation of minerals, within the socio-environmental historical context of the #capitalism of the 20th century.

https://journals.openedition.org/rga/15735
#extractivism