This Week’s Big Question: When we buy green products, we aren’t doing much for the environment, says philosopher Slavoj Zizek. We run around obsessively recycling and biking and buying organic food because we believe we are doing something meaningful. But we are still consuming. We have good intentions but no real impact.
Not quite, says former San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom. If consumers are offered the right products, like electric cars that sell miles in the same way cell phones sell minutes, the impact could be enormous.
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Slavoj Zizek: The Delusion of Green Capitalism (via The Graduate Center, CUNY)
SF Mayor Gavin Newsom Advocates Innovative Electric Cars (via The Long Now Foundation)
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