November 2008
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Bill McKibben is the author of many books, including The End of Nature and, most recently, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
Here’s the thing about “capitalism”: in our fixated belief that it represents the way God ordained the universe to be, we forget what powers it. I don’t mean the invisible hand—I mean the coal, the gas, and the oil.
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