resourceism

English

Etymology

resource +‎ -ism

Noun

resourceism (uncountable)

1. (rare) A human tendency to regard the natural environment as a set of resources to be exploited.
   • 1988, Seasons, volumes 28-29, page 10:

     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

   • 1993, Archivaria:

     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," […]

   • 2006, Atenea, volumes 26-27:

     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.