Thus, resource consumption and extractivism cannot be ignored in any conversation surrounding environmental protection and justice.
Excess resource consumption and extractivism have serious environmental and social effects: child labour and bonded labour, dispossession of people from their land by multinational corporations, disruptions of alternative forms of life, soil erosion and run-offs, pollution of water supplies, destruction of natural habitats and ecosystems. Based on current patterns of consumption and economic growth, global resource use will have tripled by 2050. Thus, resource consumption and extractivism cannot be ignored in any conversation surrounding environmental protection and justice.