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	Podcast:		Big Ideas - Full program podcast
	Episode:		Who is to blame for the environmental crisis, and what needs to change?
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:54:05
	Publish Date:		2021-12-15 09:05:00
	Description:		For too long ordinary people have been singled out - their actions, and consumption habits, blamed for climate change. Instead, we should be pointing the finger at large corporations, and growth-based economics. So believes writer Jeff Sparrow, whose book Crimes Against Nature argues that unless the economic system changes, no amount of recycling, or individual action, is likely to achieve much. He tells Paul Barclay that, despite this, he is optimistic, because he believes collective action can bring about real change.
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