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“Today’s testimonies have emphasized the age-old stories of greed, colonization, … and the ongoing ecocide caused by the extractive industries,” said Casey Camp-Horinek, an elder of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma and one of the tribunal’s judges.

The national parks system is an intergenerational trust, and to the extent that extractive uses are allowed, there needs to be oversight to ensure such uses are sustainable, he said.

Shoshana Zuboff’s “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” describes the perfect storm of extractive profit-seeking and privacy erosion that drives so much of contemporary life.

I think it’s worth remembering that what these default scenarios are actually describing is mindless consumerism and rampant extractive capitalism continuing forever.

To be clear, under ideal conditions, these cozy relationships don’t need to be exclusively extractive — to borrow a term from Nobel laureates Daren Acemoglu and James Robinson.