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[[link removed]] Melody ZhangClimate change, racism, and environmental violence share the same last name:
extraction. They find root cause in the same atrophying of our national moral
character and loss of communal responsibility. We are really up against old
problems that every so often like to present a new face; today in the ways of
police brutality, of insurgent wildfires, or of acid rain.

We all participate in the economy of extraction when we practice the belief that
our Earth has no dignity, no life, or inherent value apart from what we get out
of it for utility and for short-term profit. We participate in this economy when
we continue to strip the dignity from any sort of bodily — or embodied — work
and exploit mainly Black and brown bodies for hard labor with criminally low
wages and working conditions in exchange for comfort enjoyed only by some. We
all fall prey to the logic of extraction when we engage mindlessly in
consumerism and accumulation, whether through buying stuff we do not need or
wasting what we have. There are a thousand ways to participate in the economy of
extraction, and most of the time we do it in willful ignorance.

Yet this legacy of extraction cannot co-exist with God’s dreams. In God’s order
of things, nothing is created in vain, nothing goes to waste, and everything is
treated with care. God longs for and is working toward wholeness and healing,
toward justice and restoration for all created beings. We know this and we want
to participate in building this radical and sacred economy — one where each
person and every created being is indispensable and worthy of care.

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