On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, Professor Thea Riofrancos discusses her new book, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism . Riofrancos traces the history of global extraction and examines how mining harms landscapes, provokes protest, takes center stage in national politics, and links countries on the peripheries of the world economy to huge corporations, commodity markets, and powerful investors.

Green solutions like electric cars come at a cost. She asks: Is it possible to save the world by harming it in the process?

She writes: "Extraction is the material foundation of a zero-carbon world. And that is a key reason that “green capitalism” can read like an oxymoron. How can capitalism ever be green if even the technologies and infrastructures needed to harnes

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