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How to make people happier and save the environment: Tom Fox talks with Bill McKibben
"For some reason, we've gotten stuck in a kind of hyper-individualistic mode that makes it very difficult for us to have either an ecological functioning society or one that works to the best advantage for most people," says Bill McKibben. He talks with Tom Fox about how to solve these problems.

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Episode 1: The economy is killing us and destroying the world (24 min.)
"There are two problems with our runaway growth economy," Bill McKibben tells Tom Fox. "One is the obvious ecological one, that it's driving us over a cliff as a planet. The second [is] more subtle." He said that in recent years economists and sociologists have learned that our affluence is not making us as happy as we thought it does. "I think our best shot for solving both of these problems is moving toward much more localized economies," he said. Listen to McKibben's explanation.