Weaving the topics of Weaponized Infrastructures or Extractivism and the Lilypad with We will not be the wall, we will not be the ship! Cultures of deportation, border regimes and forced displacements together, this is a call for reflection on how these issues interrelate and collide with how people can live. Extractivism can be understood as the result of a one-directional attention to environments. Capitalist conceptions of economic growth encoded in technologies of engagement, i.e. financialization and datafication impose a brutal rhythm on the organic composition of energy by turning it into a speculative value measured in its propensity to extraction. Freedom of movement and dignified dwelling, as the rights of nature and humans are to be defended for the necessary sustainability and health of an ecosystem.