In an age of global disparity and inequity, billionaire philanthropists (dead and alive) are stepping up to the plate with powerful foundations and acts of charitable giving to solve some of the world's greatest challenges. But how much faith should we place in the hands of individuals with concentrated wealth and power? And if we take a step back to examine the broader system in which these individual philanthrocapitalists function, do we find any contradictions between wealth doled out and the process of accumulating it? Further, despite some of the good that we perceive directly stemming from philanthropic efforts, what are some of the hidden motivations behind these efforts that ultimately seek to deepen the same structures that produced the problems in the first place which philanthropy purports to solve?
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Ep 107 – Face Off
Ep 106 – Human Nature
Ep 105 – School's Out
Ep 104 – This Land Is My Land
Ep 103 – Minimum Justice
Ep 102 – The Then, The Now, and The Next
Ep 101 – Collapse Chat: We Didn't Start the Fire
Ep 100 – One Hundred Years of Ashes
Ep 99 – Collapse Chat: Border Patrol Catch COVID-19
Ep 98 – Water World (Spoiler: Not So Good)
Ep 97 – Collapse Chat: Borders, Fires, Viruses, and Cannibalism
Ep 96 – Walls That Divide U.S.
Ep 95 – Collapse Chat: Silviculturists, Entrepreneurs and Social Science
Ep 94 – If a Tree Falls
Ep 93 – Collapse Chat: Birds, Vindictive Climate, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Ep 92 – Good Heavens
Ep 91 – Collapse Chat: Name and Shame, Community, and Re-Imaginings
Ep 90 – A Grave Situation
Ep 89 – Collapse Chat: Banality, Good, and Evil
Ep 88 – This Land is Our Land
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