Global extraction of fossil fuels and minerals has reached an all-time high. While the digital and energy “transitions” are increasingly diversifying the commodities entering the economy, recycling rates remain stagnant at 7%. There is no circular economy.
Energy and materials need to be extracted anew every year, opening oil wells, mines, roads, and industrial farms at an unprecedented rate. Extractive development is driving the global climate, biodiversity and pollution crisis. And its impacts on air, water, land, landscape, livelihoods and traditional knowledge are vividly felt by communities across the Majority World.
People do not accept injustice without a fight. The expansion of extraction frontiers leads to environmental conflict. Join us at the upcoming SDG Academy to explore the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (EJ Atlas), the world’s largest environmental conflict database. It documents 4,500 cases of socioecological resistance against extractive and industrial projects collected by a distributed network of more than 1,000 collaborators.
This seminar will demonstrate how the EJAtlas has been used for research, teaching, activism and policymaking. We will offer opportunities for participants to integrate the EJAtlas into their own teaching and research methodologies. Join us to discuss with our speakers how we can build collective knowledge to resist extractivism and explore alternative transformation pathways.
This event is organised by the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and will take place at the Green Office VU. It will be followed by drinks.
