Beings Seen and Unseen – a conversation with Amitav Ghosh
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The History of Capitalism and Climate Change
The era of western military conquests predates capitalism by centuries. And that it was really these conquests that fostered capitalism. Can you talk about why it's so important that these histories be revealed and are part of the discussions about climate change? In asia, africa, also, latin america, also, climate change is not seen in the way that it's seen in the west. If you go anywhere in africa or asia and speak to ordinary people and sayw you know, what is climate change all about? They'll say, it's all about keeping us poor. It's all about the great disparity that's occurred in the world during the period of
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