#greenextractivism — Public Fediverse posts

Rio Tinto pauses plans for $3.7b lithium mine but Serbians remain concerned
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-18/rio-tinto-jadar-valley-mine-paused-amid-huge-opposition/106020944

Transnational companies in environmental conflicts: Rio Tinto, anti-mining resistance in Serbia, and the contradictions of Europeanization . "We reconstruct the anti-mining against a lithium mine in Serbia."
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42597-024-00114-5
#GlobalNorth #GreenExtractivism #lithium #REEs #Serbia #EU #cars #EV #ElectricVehicles #extractivism #ResistanceMovement #water #pollution

We proceed as follows:
1. Drawing on the contributions to this SI and wider literature, we highlight the EU bioeconomy's embeddedness in #colonial and #neocolonial logics of #domination and #greenextractivism.

2. We identify two broad BE policy visions, which we term as: i. Pro-economic growth, and ii. Pro-planetary boundaries - arguing that neither can address the multidimensional and intertwined crises, including global extractivism and #socioecological #inequalities and #injustices.