Susan George has been an indefatigable campaigner for a fairer world all her life. Her first book ‘How the Other Half Dies – the real reasons for world hunger’ published in the mid 1970s was hugely influential on a whole generation, including me. In this interview she discusses her lifetime’s work, starting with food and moving on into debt, international institutions like the World Bank, trade and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and finance. Power and the need to address how the global powerful class acts has been central to her work if we are to address inequality. She reflects on this and the future and recommends still to study the rich and powerful, not the poor and powerless.
0- 6′ 55″ Hunger
6′ 55″ – 8’50” Debt
8′ 50″ – 9′ 56″ Washington Consensus & World Bank
9′ 56″ – 11′ 39″ Trade, food and hunger, from NAFTA to TTIP
11′ 39 – 16′ 37″ Looking ahead, recognise enemies, Panama papers
16′ 37″ – 19′ 29″ Class perspective and advice
19′ 29″ – 21′ 27″ TTIP, impact on food system & agro-ecology
21′ 27 – 23′ 20″ Changing geopolitics
23′ 20″ – 26′ 30″ Finance, inequality and concerns for future
26′ 30 – 28′ 08″ (end) Hopeful vision
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