Salvatore Engels-Di Mauro
Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at SUNY New Paltz and chief editor of the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism.
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Sep 29, 2026
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So Salvatore, do you think that the eco in eco-socialism or eco-communism is necessary? And if so, why?
12:29
Of course, a very important one with respect to people like us living in the US or in Western Europe or Europe.
12:37
So I've been involved in, I guess, directly in eco-socialist circles for quite a while.
12:44
And the way I've been thinking about it is that it is a redundant word with socialism.
12:50
It's taken me some years to understand this this way, but it is a necessary term in particular contexts.
12:58
So, for instance, in Venezuela and in Latin America, it's taken up quite a lot of space and popularity among movements.
32:18
Most students will have heard of Chernobyl, but they will never have heard of Bhopal.
32:30
And they were just basically taking rather lax measures in terms of prevention.
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