John Bellamy Foster Over the last decade and a half, the concept of extractivism has emerged as a key element in our understanding of the planetary ecological crisis.
This month’s Review of the Month by John Bellamy Foster illuminates the idea of extractivism, a key concept in understanding our current planetary crisis.
T. S. Eliot, somewhere in the Four Quartets, says, “hope would be hope for the wrong thing…” As the world careens towards a cliff, to use a cliché of contemporary conversations about a future that is increasingly the most urgent item on all agendas, hope for the wrong things springs eternal.