Resource extraction and global resistance

How will these resources help you?

Each year, the world consumes more than 92 billion tonnes of materials, with the richest countries consuming, on average, 13 times more than the poorest. From farming to mining, extractive industries are responsible for half of the world’s carbon emissions, more than 80% of biodiversity loss and 85% of water stress. As a result, the processes of resource extraction are saturated in conflict and resistance from local to global scales. These resources are intended to promote critical and creative pedagogies around extractivism and the social movements resisting it around the world. I have been fortunate enough to use many of these resources with different age groups in the classroom, igniting insightful and informative teaching and learning opportunities.