
Beings Seen and Unseen – a conversation with Amitav Ghosh
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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Is It Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than the End of Capitalism?
In the book, you spent some time interviewing and speaking with migrants who'd come to europe from asia. And none of them seem to describe climate change in a silod manner. They always put in the context of its relationships with so many other factors,. economic, political and so on. That is absolutely the case. I mean, in fact, you know, margaret atwood famously said about a climate change that is not just about the climate, it's everything changed. This is something that all these migrants instinctively understood. You ask this question, why does capitalism so often come to be abstracted from its wider geo political context? Part of the answer is its way of avoiding
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