Colonial subjugation extends beyond people to the natural habitat itself

Evidence

Just as the Western industrialized countries (and now China and Asian others) have contributed to the greater part of environmental degradation, Israel, in its domains, has too—notwithstanding its remarkable record in green technology. For instance, the Dead Sea, a unique natural habitat in the world, is experiencing, by any account, an “environmental calamity,” largely due to Israel’s exploitative industries. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 441

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader theme of environmental degradation by industrial powers and the extension of colonial domination to ecology rather than only population. — connects to: Colonialism functioned through thingification that made the oppressed accept subjugation as natural. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 262; Colonial peoples were naturalised alongside their land as savage nature to be tamed — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 404; Habitat restoration and colonial progress both impose narrow ideas of good — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 311