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Resource justice and new economies

Europe needs to end extractivism.

Our growth-obsessed economic model relies on extracting ever-more resources from a finite planet, leading to environmental degradation, conflict and social inequality.

We want to inspire action to wholly transform the current dominant growth-based, capitalist, neoliberal economy, which is at the root of the destruction of our shared planet and of people. And to dismantle the power structures maintaining and driving it.

Europe consumes a disproportionate amount of global resources, and is more dependent on imported resources than any other region in the world. European economies were built in great part through colonisation of the Global South, extracting and depleting resources and appropriating human bodies and labour. This exploitative and unjust situation still exists today through neocolonialism

Friends of the Earth Europe campaigns for resource justice, resource use reduction and to galvanise collective action from governments and people to redesign an economy that serves the wellbeing of all and our shared planet.

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Lindsey Wuisan

Resource Justice and New Economies campaigner
lindsey.wuisan[at]foeeurope.org

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