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Abstract
Abstract This chapter introduces the concept of climate extractivism to describe how mainstream decarbonization strategies rest on resource-intensive mining, renewable energy infrastructure, and electrification that reproduce extractivist logics and resource imperialism under a green label. Tracing extractivism's colonial and anthropocentric roots, the chapter argues that the pursuit of a mineral-intensive green transition often generates new resource frontiers, sacrifice zones, and a double burden for affected communities: climate impacts compounded by climate-driven extraction. It identifies the coalition of states, industries, and financial institutions sustaining this extractive consensus, while highlighting the political choices that distinguish climate extractivism from genuine alternatives. The chapter points at the pattern of energy addition rather than substitution before outlining critiques of the extractive consensus and pathways toward decolonized, justice-oriented, degrowth-informed transitions.
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Authors Philippe Le Billon
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Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oso/9780197873434.003.0001
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197873434.003.0001
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