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Sat 08 Aug 2008Capitalism as a threat to the environment
WORLD VIEW/PAUL GILLESPIE:"CONTEMPORARY capitalism and a habitable planet cannot coexist." So runs the editorial summary of a book by James Gustave Speth, dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
"Today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that threatens the planet," he writes in The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability(Yale 2008).
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