Resourceism

Quick meaning: Resourceism is a noun meaning (rare) A human tendency to regard the natural environment as a set of resources to be exploited.

Meaning

(rare) A human tendency to regard the natural environment as a set of resources to be exploited.

Example Sentences

Similarly, to describe someone as "greedy as a pig" or "a snake in the grass" is an animal insult, or "speciesism"; "natural resources" betray a sign of "resourceism," […]

David Suzuki would remind you that this is the language of "a planet for the taking," the terminology of "resourceism" in which all living things are viewed as raw materials for the service of mankind

One of the difficulties facing efforts to constitute a radicalized articulation of ecology remains that nature has been more firmly affixed to hegemonic discourses, e.g. consumerism or "resourceism" than to liberatory discourses.

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