Rights, rorts and rants on renewables, Jobs Reset, green billionaires and pointless jobs.

24/11/2020 1h 4min

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Episode Synopsis

Fran Dyson's guests are RRR regulars and BMUC members Warren Ross, Kerry Brown and Jeanie Baxter. The panel who question, analyse and amuse listeners with their different takes on renewables (the myth we can have it all), The Jobs Reset Summit - 2020 World Economic Forum (kids will have to become entrepreneurs),  green billionaires (think Elon Musk) and pointless jobs (overpaid company directors).  
 References mentioned during the show include Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans (available on YouTube); thegrayzone.com Green Billionaires; and David Graeber's 2018 book Bullshit Jobs: A theory. 
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This episode was broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM on 30 October  2020.
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