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Documentary #14: The Green Transition Pt. 1 – The Problem with Green Capitalism

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The Atacama Desert

Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist and author of Less Is More, How De-Growth Will Save the World. He says we need to capture solar and wind power but mining for rare earth minerals comes from the global south. "We already know that right now it is being extracted on extremely destructive terms," he says.

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