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Total liberation refers to a radical ethical and political framework that seeks the dismantling of all systems of domination—human over human, human over nonhuman animals, and human over nature. It argues that struggles against capitalism, patriarchy, racism, colonialism, and the state cannot be separated from the struggle against speciesism and ecological destruction, since all are rooted in hierarchical logics of control and exploitation. Total liberation thus calls for an integrated praxis that combines social revolution, ecological defense, and animal liberation, envisioning a world free from oppression in every form. +
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Vernacular: (usually the vernacular) the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region: he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience. +
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The term “sacrifice zone” emerged in the 1970s within U.S. land management debates, originally describing the overgrazed, degraded patches around water sources in livestock farming. It gained broader visibility in 1973 when a National Academy of Sciences report applied it to the lasting ecological and social damage of coal strip-mining in the American West. The concept soon entered wider environmental and political discourse, especially during the energy crisis of the 1970s, when policymakers used it to justify local environmental destruction in the name of national energy security. Journalists and activists amplified the term to reveal how certain places—and by extension, their inhabitants—were deemed disposable for the “greater good.” By the 1980s and 1990s, the environmental justice movement embraced “sacrifice zone” to highlight the disproportionate burden borne by communities of color and low-income groups, who faced toxic contamination and pollution from industries. Today, the term is applied more broadly to areas subjected to harmful extractive activities, from fossil fuel production and chemical industries to large-scale renewable energy projects, underscoring the ongoing trade-offs and injustices in the pursuit of economic growth and energy transitions. +