On The Socialist Program, Richard Wolff discusses the Trump administration’s rollback of EPA regulations on greenhouse gases and pollutants. The Environmental Protection Agency’s role in limiting air and water contamination comes under pressure as protections are weakened. Industrial pollution has produced long term damage to public health and ecosystems across the United States. Capitalist production prioritizes profit over environmental sustainability, driving recurring ecological crises. Modern environmental regulations trace back to grassroots movements of the 1960s and 1970s that forced government action. Marxist theory links environmental destruction to the structure of capitalism itself and calls for systemic economic change rather than piecemeal reform.
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