Richard Wolff On COP26: Corporate Megalomaniacs Distract From What Capitalism Has Wrought

Julianna speaks with Professor and Economist Richard Wolff about COP26... how the billions set aside in Glasgow to save forests represent a fraction of spending to support fossil fuels, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ ’Bezos Earth Fund’, the role of business in responding to the existential issues of environmental and climate crisis, and more. Richard Wolff’s latest book is The Sickness Is The System: When Capitalism Fails To Save Us From Pandemics or Itself (BUY HERE: ). Professor Wolff is an American Economist, known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, University of Utah, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and