Carbon Footprints vs. Carbon Bootprints: Climate Change Class War / Matthew Huber

20/09/2022 1h 23min
Carbon Footprints vs. Carbon Bootprints: Climate Change Class War / Matthew Huber

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Episode Synopsis

Host Chuck Mertz speaks with with Geographer Matthew Huber to discuss how individualized focus on the purification of consumer choices divides the working class and depletes energy for collective organizing against the the Capitalist culprits profiting off the extraction of environmental resources. Matthew T. Huber is Professor of Geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. His book Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet published May 2022 on Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3973-climate-change-as-class-war

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