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I suspect that everyone who reads this collection of essays already is cognizant of two major life- and planet-changing trends which have manifested themselves ever more strongly during the last 40 years:
KH, economist and human ecologist. KH has taught development economics and ecological economics at the universities of Uppsala, Lund, Växjö and Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2012, he defended his PhD thesis—The Appropriation of Ecological Space. Agrofuels, Unequal Exchange and Environmental Load Displacements. Routledge 2013—at the Department of Human Ecology, Lund University.
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Hermele, K. (2020). Who Can Save Us from Ourselves?. In: Brundenius, C. (eds) Reflections on Socialism in the Twenty-First Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33920-3_9
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