GEOLOGY 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: World-Systems Theory, Soil Fertility, Dependency Theory
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The environmental impacts of global production and trade: extractivism. = activities which remove large quantities of natural resources that are not processed (or processed only to a limited degree), especially for export. Not limited to minerals or oil, also present in farming, forestry and even fishing" (acosta, 2013) Begun with extraction of raw materials essential for industrial revolutions in the colonial countries. Because of the huge scale of extraction, many renewable resources, such as forests or soil fertility, are becoming nonrenewable. The resource is depleted when the rate of extraction is much higher than the rate at which the environment is able to renew the resource. Generates few benefits for the country of the global south extractivist mode of production common in the global south and processing of the resources takes place in global north, therefore creates a dependency on the global north.
