Andrew Yang and Sarah Lewison urge us to consider the possibilities of moving beyond an economics of extraction.

Coal has for a long time deeply affected the local identities of the Confluence region, where the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers meet in Southern Illinois and Western Kentucky. The detrimental effects of the mining of raw materials on both local ecosystems and bodies populating these ecosystems have been overshadowed by economic interests. In this report, artists Andrew Yang and Sarah Lewison bring together a range of perspectives that were presented during a panel discussion in 2019 about imagining an economics of care, rather than of extraction.