Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss [PDF]

Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss

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A huge ‘Extraction Art on the Edge of the Abyss’ project in the United States is ‘raising a ruckus’ globally to stop environmental damage. It began in the United States in 2018, initiated by the CODEX Foundation in Berkeley California. The late Edwin Dobb and Peter Rutledge Koch started it all. They wanted to rally round as many organisations and artists as possible around the problems of extraction. Extraction happens everywhere in the world. Yet In the vast tracts of the United States and northern Canada, it is especially a massive issue.

Extractive industries have enormously accelerated in our lifetime. We have become dependent on the technologies and life-styles enabled by fossil fuels. Because of the extraction of coal, gas, and most of all oil – we can power machinery and industry. We can move about freely by road, sea and air, and heat our homes. As a consequence, our greed for it all has grown exponentially.

We sometimes forget how recently all this has happened. But now, our over-exploitation is becoming ever clearer with increasingly dramatic consequences for our changing climate. The earth is re-stabilising. If we don’t change our ways and moderate our demands on it, it will increasingly survive without us.


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