"I'm trying to build common ground between environmentalists and economists. Those two groups are being cat and dog for a long time," author and Oxford professor Paul Collier, speaking about his new book The Plundered Planet, tells ECSP.
Collier says the interests of the two groups have thus far been dominated by their "fundamentalist" wings: On one side the environmental "romantics," who value nature over people, and on the other the economic "ostriches," who deny that nature's a priori existence endows it with unique characteristics.
Read the full post on The New Security Beat: http://newsecuritybeat.blogspot.com/2010/06/video-paul-collier-on-romantics-a...
Brilliant - bravo sir, Brains and heart
peetasmith1 4 months ago
No sound on this video. Can you repost please?
jemmre 1 year ago