The struggle for a post-extractivist alternative is a global struggle - Samantha

"Extractivism - a development model which underlies most economies of the Global South and shapes our societies - is deeply destructive, it rampages through communities, through forests and waterways, destroying the very basis for the reproduction of human beings. It ‘undermines’ the water we drink, the lands we live on and eat from, the forests we harvest from, and the air we breathe."

"… because of the centrality of extractivism to the food, energy, social and planetary crisis this is where we must start to make our challenges, and propose and build our alternatives.”

Read More about this at http://www.actionaid.org/nl/nederland/2014/05/women-mining-interview-samantha-hargreaves