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An extraordinary shift, and credit where it's due.
BUT: the great unsayable, that the BBC won't allow anyone to voice on air, is that the driver of planetary destruction is not "excess" capitalism, but capitalism itself. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54268038
BUT: the great unsayable, that the BBC won't allow anyone to voice on air, is that the driver of planetary destruction is not "excess" capitalism, but capitalism itself. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54268038
I write about here. I challenge @BBCNews to represent this view. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/15/capitalism-destroying-earth-human-right-climate-strike-children
And here.
The problem is not the adjective.
It's the noun. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/25/capitalism-economic-system-survival-earth
The problem is not the adjective.
It's the noun. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/25/capitalism-economic-system-survival-earth
To suggest that capitalism is intrinsically flawed is the equivalent of announcing "God is dead" in the early 19th Century.
It's modern-day blasphemy, and in the BBC, and almost all the rest of the media, it is forbidden.
It's modern-day blasphemy, and in the BBC, and almost all the rest of the media, it is forbidden.
When I understood much less, and my critiques of environmental destruction were quite superficial, the phone never stopped ringing. Three or four times a day, BBC programmes asked me to appear. (I turned most of them down).
Today, it's once or twice a year.
Today, it's once or twice a year.
Systemic critiques seem to terrify the bejesus out of BBC editors.
The more you understand, the less they want to know.
The more you understand, the less they want to know.
I've tried to understand what senior BBC editors mean when they call me an "extremist".
Could it be true? Are they right to exclude me on these grounds?
I genuinely try to see their point.
Now I think I get it.
An "extremist" is someone who says the problems are systemic.
Could it be true? Are they right to exclude me on these grounds?
I genuinely try to see their point.
Now I think I get it.
An "extremist" is someone who says the problems are systemic.
