November 20th at 5:30pm CST - November 20th at 7:30pm CST
Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction
Join author Bruce Rich as he discusses “Foreclosing the Future” and shows how the World Bank’s failure to address the challenges of the 21st Century has implications for everyone on an increasingly crowded planet. He recounts a story of larger-than-life personalities, international intrigue, and human suffering brought about by a winner-take-all economic globalization–and identifies the changes necessary if the World Bank and the world’s governments are to make real progress in helping the poorest and sustaining the environmental resources on which all of us depend.
About The Book
"Foreclosing the Future carefully documents the World Bank’s adherence to ‘pushing the money out the door,’ refusing to learn from past mistakes, tolerating corruption, trashing the planet, and evicting the poor–all in devout service to a mismeasure of wealth. Bruce Rich gives a tragic, honest, and well-argued account of the decline of a once-promising institution." -- Herman Daly, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland School of Public Policy, Former Senior Economist at The World Bank
About the Author
Bruce Rich is lawyer who has worked for three decades with national environmental organizations. He is an expert on public international finance and the environment. He received the United Nations Global 500 Award for environmental achievement for his research and advocacy concerning multilateral development banks. He is the author of Mortgaging the Earth and To Uphold the World (with a Foreword by Nobel Economics Laureate Amartya Sen, and an Afterward by H.H. The Dalai Lama), as well as articles in numerous publications such as The Financial Times, The Ecologist, and Environmental Forum, the policy journal of the Environmental Law Institute.
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