1300: Ecology, energy and the state / Erald Kolasi
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This Is Hell!
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🗓️ 18 February 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You can give my other suit to the Salvation Army, |
| 0:06.0 | and everything else I leave behind. |
| 0:11.0 | I ain't taken nothing that'll slow down my traveling while I'm untangled in my mind. |
| 0:19.0 | I ain't gonna repeat what I said anymore |
| 0:26.0 | well I'm reading there the name 10 threes before |
| 0:30.0 | you're welcome to you, Johnny. |
| 0:40.0 | This is hell. Live from late capitalism where the only thing that is not privately owned is our own privacy. |
| 0:54.0 | government, as we know it, revolves around the economy. |
| 0:58.4 | The state defends the economy, it bolsters the economy, it even corrects the economy when it starts going bad including by bailing out |
| 1:05.9 | those who made the economy go south in the first place. With a state totally |
| 1:11.7 | focused and obsessed with the economy. It should come as no surprise |
| 1:17.0 | that things like the environment and climate are not a priority. Profit is. |
| 1:20.8 | After all, if your whole mission is to make money, you likely do it at all costs |
| 1:26.4 | to the point of not considering the long-term effects of those costs. In the face of the crises |
| 1:31.6 | we face today, both biological and climatological, we may want to reconsider our economic state and contemplate an alternative that is not as destructive to our planet or ourselves. What if instead of having a state whose sole |
| 1:46.4 | mission seems to be protecting the economy and forcing the economy with laws even with |
| 1:51.1 | violence as we saw police violently defend property rights over this past |
| 1:54.8 | summer. |
| 1:55.8 | What if instead of an economic state we had some different kind of state? |
| 2:01.7 | We'll consider an alternative today when we speak with |
| 2:05.1 | monthly review writer Errol Kolossi who posted the article The Ecological |
| 2:11.2 | State. I am your bitter blind broke gap-tooth radio show live stream |
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