#60: Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet with Bart Elmore

Bart Elmore is an award-winning professor and writer who investigates the impact of big business on our environment.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Bart about his latest book titled: Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet. Where in the book, he uses the histories of five southern firms―Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Walmart, FedEx, and Bank of America―to investigate the environmental impact of our have-it-now, fly-by-night, buy-on-credit economy.

Some of the topics we discussed in this episode includes:

1. How did Bart choose the five companies the  in the book and what were the things about the companies he wanted to examine?
2. We discuss the term 'commercial ecology'
3. How did government spending have so much of an impact on how these companies managed to grow so big?
4. Delta Airlines and what were the ecological issues as a result of its growth
5. When did Banks start to become the target of environmental activism?
6. How is The Bank of America accredited as a sustainability leader but also dubbed 'The Bank of Coal?'
7. Will there be further urbanisation of the Southern landscape or has this time passed?

The Book and Audiobook: Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet is out now.

You can also find out more about Bart on his website https://www.bartelmore.com/




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