Extinction in transition: coca, coal, and the production of enmity in Colombia's post-peace accords environment

At the Paris Climate Summit in 2015, then Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos proposed constructing a multi-national biodiversity corridor that would extend from Andes to Brazilian Atlantic coast. highlighted increased militarization of territory as one advantage corridor. In this model, ecological conservation becomes matter national/natural security, form counterinsurgency counter illegal economies. change and disaster mean forest needs military power State save it destruction. We argue such entails necropolitics lying wait; because conserve part is condemn other – framed enemy certain destruction, land simultaneously designated for large-scale development projects. Conservation, effect, tied extinction. Our article examines two increasingly militarized frontiers work through Colombia. The first where meets Amazon rainforest, an area has seen increase deforestation following 2016 Peace Agreement with FARC. Deforestation often attributed cultivation coca (used produce cocaine), solution posited by government eradicate plant. eradication illicit crops enforced extinction militarizes forest, targeting both human non-human inhabitants. second frontier concerns coal mining on Caribbean coast, mass environmental devastation induced industry led forced reorganization life region. guards sites extraction those who oppose become targets elimination. bring these cases into dialogue, trace extinction-driven expansion extractive economies, process intertwined armed conflict, narcotrafficking, now transitional politics.