Episode 12 | Nov 5, 2021

A Strong Leg to Stand On: environmental policy and the profit motive

Associate professor of geography at the University of Toronto and senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, Pierre Desrochers, joins me this week to discuss environmentalism, free market policy alternatives, and the local food movement. We even get into fossil fuel divestment campaigns in universities.

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