sowing seeds with china’s ecosocialists
Today's episode of Ecosocialist Horizons Hour focuses on that special country in the global economy and world history, The People's Republic of China.
Even in "the desert of the real" that is Western media, one cannot argue that China's losses to environmental degradation is quite real: desertification costs it at least 50 billion dollars a year; Environmental Refugees are estimated in the hundreds of thousands to millions; Pollution statistics are staggering; the youngest child with lung cancer has recently been registered in this large nation. Despite this, there are "seeds" of an ecosocialist future buried in the desert of this destruction; and some of these nascent forces brought distinguished American ecosocialist Joel Kovel to speak in China. Kovel reports back from his journey, Quincy Saul shares insight about China's desertification and the attempts to regreen it; and Kali shares an excerpt from Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth." Labor / Community organizer Abraham Mwaura also joins us from Chicago. Ben Barson hosts while Prince Akeem engineers.
Ecosocialist Horizons Hour is your frontline report on the global ecological crisis and the struggle for a livable world. EHH is the only source connecting the dots between Empire, Capitalism, Ecological Collapse, and the movements to rebuild humanity’s severed connection with the natural world.
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