George Monbiot - Out of the Wreckage - A New Politics for an Age of Crisis - The Gaia Foundation
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- In this powerful and positive talk for The Gaia Foundation, George Monbiot brings to life his new book, Out of the Wreckage - A New Politics for an Age of Crisis.
George explains how a toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism not only rules the world, but misrepresents human nature, thereby destroying hope and common purpose whilst fracturing communities and the ecosystems upon which we all depend. He argues that only a positive vision can replace it; a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better world, and a more respectful relationship with our beautiful planet.
George explore new findings in psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology cast human nature in a radically different light: as the supreme altruists and cooperators. He shows how we can build on these findings to create a new politics: a ‘politics of belonging’, and a politics which has community, reciprocity and respect for all species at its heart. Both democracy and economic life can be radically reorganised from the bottom up, enabling us to take back control and overthrow the forces that have thwarted our ambitions for a better society and better stewardship of the Earth.
George provides a thrilling and positive vision, and the hope and clarity required to change the world.
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This was filmed in Heath Street Baptist Church, North London by Ben Gray for The Gaia Foundation. 23rd November 2017.
Spot on as always, George. Thank you for the inspiration and get better soon, we need you!
First of all, I hope that George Monbiot will get healthy again, because his voice is much needed in our time! Hardly anyone talks about the environment, neoliberalism and its implications at all - but George Monbiot does, and so eloquently and with much compassion.
This was a very good presentation. Thanks so much for the upload!
hear hear. Thank you for watching!
People have talked about politics, liberalism, the environment, social injustice, capitalism, Class Structures etc etc ....for time immemorial, he just happens to be the latest, he can talk until he cannot talk anymore, but you will never, and i mean never, convince all the Governments all over this planet, to do the right thing .... A Utopian "Let's save the world, let's Save themselves, Let's Share with each other" because Left wing policies are best ..... does not, and cannot work because of the human psyche..... We must deal with the world as it is George, NOT as we would like it to be ..... a sad truth I'm afraid, but continue to bang your head into a brick wall by all means.
@@Broomehall "we must deal with the world as it is, not as..." And the world as it is, is as the "psychopaths" say it is?
The Buddhist idea of 'loving kindness' illuminates George's vision of a politics of belonging - I think his ideology is one of clarity and forward thinking for the future of all human kind
This talk should have subtitles in many language. I would love to show it to my mother. Such an great talk!
The Principle of Sharing is the key to Peace & Justice in the world, George is heading in the right direction.
George was in best humor for this presentation - a really interesting, perhaps viable view of the future.
SUch an inspirational talk!
Thank you! Utterly to the point, as a deeper analysis of our present situation.
Wonderful!
Good on you George. Shame this has had so few views.
Superb talk/analysis , bought the book and cannot wait to read. Thank you.
Great Video!
Excellent talk.
Mr Monbiot tells this whole story in a way also accessible to those not nerdy about politics.I hope this can be an audio podcast. I want to share it with friends who can't or won't watch it on a small screen.
Check out his interview on The Dig podcast from May 23rd.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!
Everybody is thinking that money can solve our problems if we just reinvent our economic measurement, yet nobody is realizing that the reasons the problems exist today and throughout history is the existence of the monetary system itself.
I applaud the optimism and enthusiasm, but the only people who can pass a "land value tax" are the very people who benefit from the speculation of land value, both market and state.
The Bernie/Corbin model of grassroots support has potential, but the establishment parties who stand to lose power in such a case will fight with every dirty trick in the book. That's why Bernie didn't get the nomination. The Hilary campaign and the DNC conspired to cut him out.
I truly believe what George lays out inasmuch as the Hobbesian Neoliberal narrative has poisoned the trust of society and destroyed any sense of community and the commons to boot. The only way to rebuild trust and community is for ordinary citizens to start helping each other and overcoming the cynicism that devides and isolates us. The problem I foresee is in the scaling up of that process. We are a small scale tribal species that has built a global conglomerate of competitive supertribes. From religion to politics to nationalism to ethnicity to sexuality to class to race and on and on...
Unfortunately, the only thing that reliably unites people on a large scale is catastrophe. War, natural disaster, epidemic disease, etc. No matter what the source of destruction, however, Capitalism can always rush in to profit from it. I honestly can't see a way out. I hope I will be proved wrong someday.
i think murray bookchin's idea of libertarian municipalism is the answer..check out Black Socialists in America, Cooperation Jackson and Symbiosis. Also, Democratic Confederalism in Rojava, Social Ecology and the Zapatistas.
Meta-narratives. Rings of Barthes. Good stuff
People who deny ideology are more ruled by ideology than thoughts who see it.
The Enclosures are being repeated in Africa as we sit here. The new landlords are the Chinese, and next in line, the EU. The US is making a late play to join them. No-one asked the indigenous people if they wanted this. No-one told them it was coming.
you can't kill the beast while feeding it at the same time...
Imagine Rosen as pm
the new story doesnt have to be "completely different." Thats an absurd proposition. It has to be radically different.
Plan for the same thing to happen just before the next ellection.
Dear George, we live in a divided society when control is exercised by exacerbating those divisions. The controlling institutions are paid for by the various vested interests all of which are materially defensive and mutually interdependant . My wife and I moved near a village in the Republic of Ireland. This village was presented with a budget of 250,000 punts to fund and develop a community project There was a deadline of one year in which to agree a common project. That year came and went without a common agreement and the much needed money was lost. Any hope of community creating a society which does not descend into fascism is pie in the sky. An historic example of the lengths vested interests will go to can be found in the attempts to create the labour movements of the USA where the American Constitution was re-interpreted in the interests of the minority to suppress the rights of workers. Change can only come in the wake of fascism as a repugnant rejection of it but it has to be experienced in all its horror by victors of its foes, if there are any. If fascism wins, as it did so historically in the creation of world empires by the European states by the brutal suppression and enslavement of the native populations, then it is considered justifiable and even praise worthy, and spoken of as 'The White Man's Burden' etc.
When one talks about political failure, they are saying that their view points are being challenged.
It does not mean that the opposition is evil. It means that the narrator is in disagreement. That is acceptable Most of us, in reality, have disagreements with government. George is being a light in the night. I am not saying that his light is a white light. he is opening minds to questions. That is a good thing. When he speaks of absolutes, I begin to become curious. What most of this Gaia cult does not seem to understand is the power of TIME. At this moment in time, mankind thinks it may control of the weather & climate. Remember that Greenland was once green. Then time & climate changed that. Iceland was once all ice. Then time & climate changed that. Mankind has no control over climate change. TIME is the ruler of climate. Time changes the climate of this Earth; not mankind. Mankind survives due to adaptation. I find it silly that mankind thinks it has control over climate change. I think this may be a for profit scam. I may be wrong. I have been wrong in life in the past. I think that is known as growing up. I proffer that mankind does not control the weather. I proffer that global evolution & time is in control. So I say, to make peace with mankind's place in time as irreverent. What is relevant is mankind's strive to survive. When it gets cold, mankind moves. When it gets hot, mankind moves to survive. Money will not overpower Mother Nature. SURVIVE.
knob ed
brilliant except the crap on landlords. I worked 12 hrs a day for years to buy properties to rent so I don't need a state pension many landlords work much harder than the benefits layabouts that rent.
Well, it depends what you mean by 'rent'. Renting a property is no different to 'buying' a property with a mortgage because 'mortgage interest' and 'property rent' are exactly the same thing. You are not 'loaned' the money to buy a property (which suggests a favour by the moneylender to the buyer); you are in fact 'renting' the money for a fee (the 'interest' or 'rent') until it is repaid whilst the lender holds the deeds until repayment is complete. In the world of 'double-entry-bookkeeping' there is no difference between an asset and money. This means that the bank is not actually lending you anything because it holds the property as security. It is in fact 'money-for-nothing' (rent) for the bank. You must also consider that most working people these days (post 2008) would not even be considered for a mortgage on the average wage. If you are suggesting that you work harder than I do then you are quite wrong.
pigofapilot1 It’s a shame that landlord never replied to this. Most people work hard, most will never own a property.
Wow George ..... I bet all those sheep are making you a tidy sum, you're everywhere preaching to the "want to believe" brigade, and i know you believe in what you say, but the money is real nice too isnt it ?
Broomehall are you a troll? or only open to the argument of money? are you envious of George Monbiot? what do you see as the meaning & purpose of your own life?
@@johannesdalhuijsen3390 No ..... just can't bare preachers.
Broomehall Yes because he would have made far less money if he was supporting the fossil fuel industries. How can you call people sheep whilst you show no ability to think critically and continue to graze the same grass that no longer grows. I’d like to have a drink with you, would be intrigued to see a sheep that thinks it’s a wolf.
Mr.Mondiot is a very silly man