Brendan Montague is a regular columnist for openDemocracy in our ‘Brexit Inc: the environment and corporate power in the new Britain’ series.
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George Monbiot on the Unholy Trinity of Ideologies Trashing our Planet
Monbiot argues that capitalism now is neoliberal capitalism. And, unusually, that capitalism and consumerism are ideologies as much as neoliberalism is. “Part of the insidious power of these ideologies is that they are the water in which we swim – the plastic soup in which we swim. They are everywhere.
February 4, 2020