Green Economics

/|IX)AL5u4v j0    Writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben has become a kind of folk hero in the backroads of Vermont and across the country, wherever farmers markets flourish and citizens rise in fear of global warming. Next month, in hundreds of towns and cities, his "Step it up" acolytes will rally to demand faster action on climate change.绿色建筑博客%I S }6d%~y[


VB#s'[1LE,x0In a new book, Bill McKibben is calling for radical economic change as well -- out with "more is better" and the fires of global growth; in with local food, local produce, a kind of new village life. He calls it "deep economy" to save the Earth.绿色建筑博客3W)BK+icVg wxi

i?QX*y3Lxy4Uz0This hour On Point: Bill McKibben and leading Chicago market economist Marvin Zonis have it out on the future of the planet.绿色建筑博客"Z C9JqxU0^

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"I think we shouldn't go deep into the global warming debate because that debate has been solved." Bill McKibben绿色建筑博客sH GE2s+Y

+j3XDB E4G0"The market has added no value to the atmosphere." Bill McKibben绿色建筑博客U.l'uN[]
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"Data show us that inequality has grown not because the poor have gotten poorer but because the rich have gotten richer. Market growth has made the poor richer." Marvin Zonis 绿色建筑博客RG&k^FFs8j}
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"The long-term answer is to change the trajectory of our economy." Bill McKibben
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p&n*d&i Y^0zm0"Europe doesn't follow the solutions that McKibben suggests for the US. Americans value liberty and individualism and Europeans value community more... . We have to adopt our American [economic] model to the American values." Marvin Zonis绿色建筑博客 E^-m7M|O#g3iB

$r8o9DK(s6U0"I don't think Bill's plan is going to move this country and the economy in the direction he wants it to go." Marvin Zonis
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