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Environmentalist Gus Speth was an adviser in the Carter White House. Today he says we need to make basic changes to capitalism if there is any hope of avoiding environmental catastrophe. Does capitalism harm the environment? Speth has been an environmentalist for more than three decades and co founded the Natural Resources Defense Council. He is currently dean and professor of environmental policy at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

It's Earth Day, time to consider the environment. Environmentalist Gus Speth was an adviser in the Carter White House. Today he says we're going to have to make basic changes in capitalism if there is any hope of avoiding environmental catastrophe. Also today, imagine your life without electricity and without oil. You'd be growing your own food to survive, walking everywhere and your media consumption would consist of conversation. James Howard Kunstler has been predicting this future in non fiction books. Now he imagines this world in the new novel World Made By Hand. He'll explain how he thinks we'll be living in the not so distant future and why we shouldn't necessarily fear it.