Environmental destruction, colonialism, and genocide are organically entwined phenomena

Evidence

Just to make the connection—which I shall pursue later—clear enough for now, environmental degradation, the modern state, colonialism, modern power, genocide, and much else of the same are inseparable from one another. Or, put schematically, to speak of genocide and the destruction of the environment as if they are separate or less than organically entwined phenomena is to misunderstand. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 193

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the book’s earlier chapters and with settler-colonial studies connecting land dispossession to extermination; also echoes the environmental history thread in the library. — connects to: Indigenous and Chicana women frame toxic contamination as systematic genocide — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 233
• SEED: The claim that genocide and ecological destruction are one organic phenomenon offers a strong essay angle: examining extermination campaigns as land-clearing projects, or the ‘greening’ of colonial violence.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 193