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Posted by Chris Agnos on Dec. 6, 2012

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What kind of being do you hope inhabits the world decades from now? I hope it will be a creature that understands what the true bottom line is. David Suzuki explains the fallacy of conventional economics, in an interview done for the BBC.

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