Kenny Ausubel – It’s the Corporations, Stupid
Bioneers | Published: April 6, 2024 Eco-Nomics Video
Bioneers’ founder (back in 1990!), has become renowned for his eagerly-anticipated yearly passionate orations that lay bare with ruthless analysis and humor specific sectors of malfeasance in our society that are seeking to derail progress to protect their wealth and privilege. This year he dissected the history and current machinations of corporations as they exert ever more dominance of our economy and political system and urged us to fully grasp their strategies and to resist and curb the power of these forces of inertia and reaction while we still can.
This talk was delivered at the 2024 Bioneers Conference. Read a written version of this talk here.
Kenny Ausubel, CEO and founder of Bioneers, is an award-winning social entrepreneur, journalist, author and filmmaker. Co-founder and first CEO of the organic seed company, Seeds of Change, his film (and companion book) Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime helped influence national alternative medicine policy. He has edited several books and written four, including, most recently, Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature.
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