From a local economy perspective, extraction is a win-lose scenario every time. The ordinary person might see a short-term job here, a new customer there, but their livelihoods and their communities are insecure; they are always at risk of disappearing with the swipe of a pen in an office far away—from the community, geographically, but also socially far away from the lived experience of putting food on a table or protecting a local school. This is not thriving.
