Earth Day Special II: Joel Kovel
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Show 202a: Earth Day Special: Joel Kovel – The Enemy of Nature
Earth Day Special: Joel Kovel
The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World
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As the world’s scientists converge on the all too real crisis of “global warming,” even while Right-wingers and the Bush Administration continue to spin the crises into a Left-wing Conspiracy – probably headed up by Al Gore – too few discussions are taking place concerning the root causes of our ecological dilemma.
Conservatives who are willing to acknowledge what science is telling us, and even those whom exhibit a real sense of urgency, are afraid of what might happen to the economy if we go at environmentalism full force. Mainstream liberals like Al Gore have been working hard to dispel this fear by assuring us that the economy will get even stronger, not weaker, if we take care of our planet.
But what if the economy is at the very heart of the crisis?
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