We are surrounded by stuff. We buy and buy and buy it’s the foundation of how our economies run, how they grow.

But all this buying, all this economic "growing", is devastating people and our planet. We are in a dangerous spiral of outofcontrol resource use.

In the third episode of All Hail The Planet a series delving into the social, economic and political forces undermining meaningful global action on climate change Ali Rae speaks with economic anthropologist Jason Hickel, economic sociologist Juliet Schor, and development economist Ndongo Samba Sylla.

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