The environment vs jobs? We have been in this fight before | Jeff Sparrow

There's nothing new in conservationists needing to win over working people, the Adani campaign can learn from the proposed Franklin DamAn energy company seeks to develop an impoverished region.When ecologists raise concerns about the effects on a natural wonder, state politicians call them middle class interlopers who care nothing for the rural economy. As environmentalists rally in the big cities, local workers march for their jobs. The conservatives insist the project must go ahead while deep divisions wrack the Labor Party. Continue reading...