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Podcast: Climate Conversations
Episode: Interview: John Perkins - five ideas from an economic hit man to make you, and the world, a better place
Description: John Perkins (pictured) is a self-confessed “Economic Hit Man”.
He believed what he was taught and told in the economic classes that rising tide would lift all boats meaning Western financial aid, primarily from America, would not only make the countries he worked in richer, but he was also helping stop communists, that the "rising tide" would play a role in ending poverty, and encourage democracy.
As he matured, John came to realise that he wasn’t in fact helping those poorer counties in which he was working, rather he was making just a handful of peop...