Sentence examples for an extractive from inspiring English sources

Farming has become an extractive industry, like mining.

They've taken it beyond the scope of just an extractive operation," the Western official said.

For gold mining is an extractive industry that eventually exhausts the resource it exploits.

The ecological crisis is key; we have an extractive economy that no longer works.

Strip miners, Packer calls them, barons of an extractive industry with no investment beyond tomorrow.

Welsh history as an "extractive economy" produced a rail system that led out to London and the ports.

"That's all we are," said Ross K. Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers, "an extractive colony for political fund raising".

"Because we are an extractive industry, sustainability needs to be front and centre on the agenda," he said.

"The political class has an extractive relationship with the society in which it lives," says a diplomat in Islamabad.

One respondent from a co-op wrote: "Our company is based on a generative ownership model rather than an extractive ownership model.

He called the political class "an extractive élite" that was ill suited to diagnosing or fixing a catastrophe of its own creation.