Angus Wright (1945 - October 21, 2022) on Ecological Damage and Capitalism(published by RevoltSource) |
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Professor Emeritus, Scholar of Agrarian, Land, and Environmental Reform in South America, and Co-founder of the Environmental Studies Program at California State University, Sacramento, where he Taught from 1972 to 2005
: Professor emeritus and one of the founders of the Environmental Studies program at California State University, Sacramento, where he taught from 1972 to 2005. (Wes Jackson was another of the founders.) Wright earned his Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Michigan in 1976 with a dissertation on "Market, Land and Class: Southern Bahia, Brazil, 1890?1942." He conducted research in Mexico and Brazil... (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #11 on Ecological Struggle Quotes >> Ecological Damage and Capitalism
“...the primary destroyers of the forest are not the poor, but those who exploit the poor, resorting to violence when they see fit in nearly complete legal impunity. This is an old problem in Brazil.”
Source: "To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil," by Angus Wright and Wendy Wolford, Food First books, Oakland, California, 2003. Chapter 3: Beyond the Lure of the Amazon, Page 260.
"To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil," by Angus Wright and Wendy Wolford, Food First books, Oakland, California, 2003.
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