In this unforgettable clip, Bill Moyers interviews Chris Hedges about our changing world. “The political system is bought off, the judicial system is bought off, the law enforcement system services the interests of power, they have been rendered powerless," he says. 

On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota: “It’s appalling. The life expectancy of a male in Pine Ridge is 48. That is the lowest in the Western Hemisphere outside Haiti. At any one time, 61% of the dwellings do not have electricity or water.”

On farm workers in Immokalee, Florida: “It’s a frightening window into the primacy of profit over human dignity and human life.” 

He leaves with a warning for us all: ”It’s greed over human life. It’s the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings. … In that biblical term, we forgot our neighbor. Because we forgot our neighbor in Pine Ridge, because we forgot our neighbor in Camden, in southern West Virginia, in the produce fields, these forces have now turned on us. They went first and now we’re next.”

Watch the interview after the jump which is interpersed with startling images of mountaintop removal mining and broken cities. “These corporations know only one word, and that’s ‘more,’" Hedges says.

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