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Capitalism and climate change – can we avert disaster? – video

Author
Elaine Graham-Leigh
Date
16 April 2019
Type
Video
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At a London public meeting, Elaine Graham-Leigh explains why climate change is a product of capitalism and the solution has to be one that confronts the system

Elaine Graham-Leigh

Elaine has been an environmental campaigner for more than a decade. She speaks and writes widely on issues of climate change and social justice, and is a member of Counterfire. She is the author of A Diet of Austerity: Class, Food and Climate Change and Marx and the Climate Crisis. Her sci-fi novel, The Caduca, is out now from The Conrad Press. 

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  • Climate Change
  • Capitalism
  • Industrial
  • Socialism
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