Tag: environmental destruction
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Trainer, between Heinberg and Hudson: The rentier connection and the biosphere polycrisis
Despite several decades of critiques, analyses, and urgent calls for reform, there has been little progress in solving the multiple environmental crises, or in deflecting their negative effects. With some notable exceptions, previous efforts have largely ignored or soft-pedaled the role of the global economic system in driving environmental collapse. Economist Michael Hudson’s Killing the…
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Addressing Seriously the Environmental Crisis: A Bold, “Outside the Box” Suggestion for Addressing Climate Change and Other Forms of Environmental Destruction
Are you confused about climate change/global warming: is it real or is it fake news? And if it is real, what can be done about it? I gave a talk on March 18, 2017 at the free speech forum in Chicago called The Open University of the Left, where I discussed this and what we…
