Behind the News: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field and Tom Philpott
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug speaks withElizabeth Wrigley-Fieldon race and mortality: years lost to police violence and how many white people would have to die of COVID-19 to equal a “normal” year of black death. (paper here, NYT article here). Then an interview with Tom Philpott, author of Perilous Bounty, on the ecological crises facing US agriculture.
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