ABSTRACT
There are vital but underemphasized temporal and spatial aspects of resource politics that reflect unequal ecological exchange. Future generations who lose wealth to present generations, and Global South locations from which resources are drawn but not properly compensated, are owed an ecological debt. Under conditions where corporations have adopted the ideology of natural capital accounting for their own ends, there are profound dangers associated with monetizing nature. But if carefully handled, these are outweighed by the conceptual and practical merits of counting the underlying values of nonrenewable resources for the purpose of leaving the resources underground. Such argumentation is becoming more common in anti-extractivist activist circuits and requires more active support from those researchers and activists who are concerned about justice and sustainability across space and time.
