Month: March 2020
The Coronavirus, Bats, and Deforestation
What is a coronavirus? Where does the latest one come from? Why do we now face an epidemic about once every decade? And could this be linked to deforestation?
Green Capitalism?
What if there was a way to make capitalism environmentally friendly and more economically robust, in a way that benefited workers in particular? Liberals like Bernie Sanders and congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are claiming that a ‘Green New Deal’ would do just that. Can it? Or is it the very nature of capitalism that makes it so destructive to the environment?
