S7 E10: The Extracted
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Global North's Consumption Footprint
- The global north utilizes a significant amount of resources from the global south, impacting land use and resource allocation.
- Roughly 2 billion acres of land in the global south, twice the size of India, are used to produce goods for consumption in the global north.
- This land, if used for domestic food production, could feed up to 6 billion people.
- The production includes commodities like sugar for Coca-Cola and beef for McDonald's, highlighting the scale of resource appropriation.
- This pattern extends to natural resources, oil, minerals, and labor, where large quantities from the global south fuel production for the north.
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