Extractions Heavy Toll
What are discarded materials from extractive activities like mining doing to life on the planet? According to Gabrielle Hecht, what\u2019s happening in South Africa to and around mountainous piles of mining residues crystallizes a number of thorny environmental and sociopolitical issues faced by communities around the globe.\nGabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures Duke University Press, 2023 (open access)\nThe post Extraction\u2019s Heavy Toll appeared first on KPFA.