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Is America Growing Itself to Destruction?

America's continuing drive for material well-being has made it the world’s colossus, but it may also contain the seeds of destruction.  Will unlimited economic growth be the undoing—not just of America, but the rest of the world? Also, secret DOJ memos on interrogation, and anthropologists at war.

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By Warren Olney • Oct 5, 2007 • 1h 0m Listen

America's continuing drive for material well-being has made it the world’s colossus, but it may also contain the seeds of destruction. Will unlimited economic growth be the undoing—not just of America, but the rest of the world? Also, secret DOJ memos on interrogation, and America's latest counterinsurgency weapon in Iraq and Afghanistan--anthropology.

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    Warren Olney

    former KCRW broadcaster

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    Frances Anderton

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