Interview: Christian Parenti
Capitalocene \u2013 maybe it doesn\u2019t roll off the tongue, but a group of thinkers argue the term is preferable to Anthropocene because it's more diagnostic of what underlies our environmental problems. One of those thinkers is Christian Parenti, a reporter and scholar. In 2011 Parenti published \u2018Tropic of Chaos,\u2019 a book about the connections between climate and conflict. More recently, he contributed to the book \u2018Anthropocene or Capitalocene?\u2019 where he lays out the case for why the state is an environment-making institution, and why the state should be the entity we look to in order to start remedying environmental issues.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices