A new Trump administration decision means that the Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA,

will no longer regulate greenhouse gases, a major cause of climate change and increased deadly weather.

We need a new system. We need a new society.

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only realizable, but an imperative necessity. We are excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us again for our regular weekly segment,

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Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the Organization Democracy at Work. He's the author of many

books, including Understanding Capitalism, which is available at Democracy at Work. Info. Professor Wolf,

welcome back. Thank you very much, Brian. Glad to be here and talking about this very important

issue. Yeah, super important. I would say a great

crime, both against nature and society and human beings, when we compare water pollution and

air pollution in the United States, for instance, between today and 1970 when the EPA was created, the differences couldn't be

more profound. Both of us are old enough to remember the smog and the lakes that you couldn't

swim in, not to say that all lakes are swimmable now, but huge number of lakes, the rivers that could be

made into flammable entities because they were so polluted. A huge difference, even though

there's still a great deal of pollution, a great deal of climate change. But this decision by the

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