Hanaček, KsenijaTran, DalenaLandau, ArielleSanz, TeresaThiri, May AyeNavas, GrettelDel Bene, DanielaLiu, JuanWalter, MarianaLopez, AidaRoy, BrototiFanari, EleonoraMartinez-Alier, Joan2024-09-122024-09-122024Hanaček K, Tran D, Landau A, Sanz T, Thiri MA, Navas G, et al. “We are protectors, not protestors”: global impacts of extractivism on human–nature bonds. Sustain Sci. 2024 Aug 23. DOI: 10.1007/s11625-024-01526-11862-4065http://hdl.handle.net/10230/61066Data de publicació electrònica 23-08-2024Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.This article analyzes the global impacts of extractivism on human–nature bonds. To do so, we rely on socio-ecological confict data from the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice. Over 1800 cases involving resistance to the destruction of nature, cultures, cosmologies, worldviews, ancestral origins, and sacred places are analyzed using log-linear regression compared to 1600 cases that do not report such loss. The impact is especially visible when mineral ores, plantation products, and crude oil are extracted. The results indicate that afected groups are Indigenous peoples, farmers, peasants, pastoralists, and religious groups. In confict outcomes, 79% of cases with refusal of compensation indicate impacts on human–nature bonds. Furthermore, in those cases where assassinations of activists occurred, 68% have observed impacts on human–nature bonds. Protecting human–nature bonds is a critical component for achieving social, economic, and environmental sustainability and justice against extractivism embedded in colonial relations playing against such bonds and environmental protectors.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2024. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01526-1Human-nature bondsExtractivismColonialismEnvironmental justiceSustainabilityinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess