Why WOKE Capitalism Collapsed: DEI, ESG, and the Failure of Social Justice (w/ Benji Backer) | The Sagnik Show

0:00 Intro
0:53 Greenwashing  
6:07 America is polarized, and it's getting worse
9:04 Companies lied about progressive goals 
17:23 Can you be a conservative environmentalist? 
28:00 Al Gore, Nixon, and the EPA
33:00 Why no one care about the environment
33:50 Protests won't solve anything, then what will?
41:20 Is Climate Change a generational issue?
44:12 Elon Musk: From Environmentalist to MAGA? 
49:50 The Green New Deal is a Trojan horse?
52:41 Tariffs and Consumerism 
56:44 America the beautiful 

Benji Backer is a friend and the founder of the American Conservation Coalition — the largest conservative youth environmental group in the U.S. He’s also the author of The Conservative Environmentalist, offering common-sense solutions for a sustainable future. Now, he's launched a new nonprofit, Nature is Nonpartisan, focused on taking the politics out of the environmental conversation.

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