Fernando Haddad

Lula's foreign policy goal was to turn Brazil into a sub-imperial power, with a presence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. This strategy must be understood as a reaction to his concerns that the extractive sector would threaten Brazil's industrial tissue.

Brazilian Politician

Yemi Osinbajo

Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry.

Nigerian Politician

David Olusoga

My view as a historian is that the empire was an extractive, exploitative, racist and violent institution and that the history of empire is one we need to confront and come to terms with, rather than celebrate.

British Historian

Vivienne Westwood

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

English Designer

Allan Savory

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

Zimbabwean Scientist

Dan Barber

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

American Chef

Use 'extractive' to talk about industries like mining, oil drilling, and forestry which remove resources from nature.

Industry Focus

'Extractive' can imply negative environmental effects, such as habitat destruction or pollution.

Environmental Impact

The term is often associated with economic discussions about resource management and exploitation.

Economic Role

Use 'extractive' to describe substances obtained through a scientific or technical process of extraction.

Scientific Usage

'Extractive' substances can come from natural sources or be synthesized in a laboratory.

Not Always Natural

'Extractive' is commonly used in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and health products to describe active ingredients.

Health and Beauty

 exchange for the government support reducing their carbon emissions or companies that we know have been in sectors which have overly used you know tax havens for example should commit to stop doing that or those types of business practices which have been overly extractive you know overly using

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 climate superpowers in the process how is pittsburgh bridging the gap from a history that was so reliant on extractive industries coal and steel to a present and near future with climate mitigation and resilience at the

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 about denial of rights, about denial of justice, rather than provision of it. And in terms of experience of capitalism, there are two aspects that the rest of the globe experiences. First, extractive industry.

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 and advance human liberty globally. It is arrogance to think that technology will save us. It is ego to think that we can continue this unjust and extractive approach to living on this planet and survive.

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 More carpet per man-hour. Thinking it through, I realized that all those attributes must be changed to move T to the denominator. In the new industrial revolution extractive must be replaced by renewable;

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 that would help all of us worldwide. Because what we need is a set of leadership that is going to do the work that we need to have done, which is to move away from dirty, extractive, harmful energy

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 practiced it identify sin it had the following characteristics extractive taking raw materials from the earth linear take make waste powered by fossil fuel derived energy wasteful abusive and

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 six years later today about 33% of it is fully protected from fishing and other extractive activities and efforts are underway to deal with pollution overfishing and the consequences of

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 of the century was entirely different it was simply an extractive industry and didn't care about wildlife they didn't care about regeneration they didn't care about ecosystems

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 Here's the welcome surprise. When we implement these solutions, we shift the way we do business from a system that is inherently exploitative and extractive

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