Sounds About Right: Audiobooks to Help Us Understand the World
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Sounds About Right: Audiobooks to Help Us Understand the World
#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:
- How did Bart choose the five companies the in the book and what were the things about the companies he wanted to examine?
- We discuss the term 'commercial ecology'
- How did government spending have so much of an impact on how these companies managed to grow so big?
- Delta Airlines and what were the ecological issues as a result of its growth
- When did Banks start to become the target of environmental activism?
- How is The Bank of America accredited as a sustainability leader but also dubbed 'The Bank of Coal?'
- 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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