Days of Revolt: Letting Go of the World

[@deborahstark3490]

Have been reading and following Chris Hedges for years now but am just recently getting into this series. I LOVE these interviews!!!

[@EarthtonesCymbals]

I'll keep holding on. What a special communion between all the Arts and their transcendent effect on our humanity. The peaceful look on Chris Hedges' face at the end is priceless.

[@sjmcn500]

Thank you Chris Hedges; I am sick in bed and facing unknown medical challenges and in the sea of trivial noise that calls itself our media, your voice (and that of your guests, values and spirit) raises my hope that our species has a hope of survival. You already know that what you are doing is inspired and healing in this profoundly fractured world so I just wanted to add my voice of support for your important work and advocacy.

[@cazd4590]

This was a great episode... Keep it up Chris. You're changing hearts :)

[@not2tees]

Thank god some people are serious and responsible, and not deluded fools with lots of money. It's positive, no matter how "dark."

[@Ckomon]

+not2tees Seriousness will not save us. The deluded fools with lots of money are the serious ones, they are serious about squeezing every last drop of life out of the Earth to enlarge the numbers in their accounts. We need ridicule, absurdity and play to throw at them.

[@not2tees]

Ckomon Hey . . . you could be right!

[@Ckomon]

+not2tees Maybe we could try this: rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brad-hornick/2014/09/party-against-pipelines-carnival-and-rising-tide

[@takishasly4735]

Meaning of war lecture by Chris Hedges

[@pdolan477208]

Loved the banjo solo at the end!

[@shultsy100]

Very nice banjo playing to end off the interview. I didn't know that man could play so well.

[@Heather31820]

I sooo appreciate Josh Fox. He is the realist person...facing despair and admitting the game is over.....difficult times, so might as well play music and dance while the bad guys takeover. We can hope for a fast death. I'm sorry to my children.

[@patrickgarvey9965]

Thanks Chris. Thanks Josh.

[@kairoskronos9139]

wicked banjo solo! loved it!!!

[@ThePeterKinder]

Favourite video so far!

[@deschutesmaple4520]

Hedges has been doing great reporting for so many years. The sad thing is that even though he exposes all of the horrible shit that is going on in the world, the horrible shit just keeps on happening, or happens even more. It's not enough to know what needs to change, somehow change must be enacted and that is the problem: the corrupt, powers that be refuse to change.

[@darcywoodall4402]

Hey Chris! Did you ever go to Flood Brook School as a kid in Londonderry/Peru Vt? I did. And have a distinct memory of a Chris Hedges. 5th grade. 1966-67 etc. I was the proverbial redheaded girl. Suffered. But if you were that kid, I have always remembered how nice your were.

[@Humptydumptytribe]

This excellent interview should have been titled, "Let's All Dance to Save the Planet."

[@251omega]

Beethoven's Ninth as Bluegrass! Bravo!

[@TheCriticsAreRaving]

What I especially loved about that was how it echoes history: Jean Jaurès played the Ode to Joy at an emergency congress in Basel cathedral in 1912, to try to inspire unity and prevent the outbreak of WW1.

[@JamieNixx]

We are definitely at 1.5 now Jamie in 2022

[@josephballin9937]

Watching Chris Hedges videos are depressing as fuck. I feel like I want to kill myself after watching one of his videos. I'm starting to believe the only hope humanity has at survival is moving to Mars at this point.

[@roberthouston1165]

+Joseph Ballin WE HAVE TO REVOLT. STOP BEING SELF CENTERED AND GET YOUR ASS ON SOME ALTRUISTIC SHIT!

[@syourke3]

+Leopold Crayons If you think humans are hopeless, check out the Martians! They are really awful!

[@cazd4590]

+Joseph Ballin Hey bud if you "live in the truth" (as Hedges would suggest), the world doesn't get better but the depression seems to pass and you start seeing everything in a different way. It takes a lot of reading and self-reflection but reality is both depressing and liberating. Instead of being depressed you generally find a way to change yourself bit by bit and start making positive changes in the world and the people around you. Hedges is one of the most important academics and public figures in our time. He can be depressing but the world is also depressing unfortunately. Hedges reminds us to worry about the things that matter most. Keep your head up and do your part!

[@klausmorgan]

The Wooly Adelgid was actually introduced accidentally, hitchhiking on imported Asian Hemlock. The two trees are closely related, and each has its own endemic parasites. There is actually a variety of Adelgid endemic to American Hemlocks but the tree has evolved defense mechanisms and an infestation doesn't kill the tree. The Asiatic Adelgid, however, was immune to those defenses and it spread from that one tree all over the Eastern seaboard. Global warming probably doesn't help, but is not the cause of this problem. Going a step deeper, the hemlock forests of the East were themselves a human creation. Hemlock was considered a poor-quality wood for any human uses, and its preferred habitats are swampy, poor soil, so it was the only thing early settlers left standing when they chopped down trees to build homes and heat them. Yet another step deeper, the diverse forest they were destroying was itself the result of intentional planting of useful tree species by Native Americans.

[@jsc1227]

Great program as usual,if the world doesn't blow up to soon, im going to get involved in a bluegrass band. i play harmonica, they say you cant play a sad song on a banjo. And its hard to always sing the blues. jake

[@TheGardeninMind]

Absolutely beautiful, absolutely beautiful, absolutely beautiful!

[@UnkyNik]

Lovely frailing, Josh.

[@jamiewalker6866]

thanks you chris and josh for sharing your concern for the welfare of the people of the usa and the world

[@MrSammo1]

Chris needs to meet Jacque Fresco.

[@abolic]

why is the documentary (if the information is so needed, and true!!) not free ???

[@Frank-cj3nh]

+abolic The financing they get to make the movie needs to be paid back (most likely). But you are right, it should be free.

[@domknots1180]

+abolic in a capitalist society which one can only survive by exchanging goods, you ask why these people need to be paid for providing not some dumb hollywood movie but a real warning of what is coming for you - unfucking real.

[@PinderXross]

In a few days/weeks/months try torrrenting it, it'll be free just like the rest of the movies out there.

[@roberthouston1165]

Maybe in the end we need mama earths tough love

[@hivemindconcussion2173]

The only control we have is our reaction.

[@TranscendianIntendor]

I asked my friend, whatever his name is, was. Harold Snowden, the "Dead Man" what was the greatest thing he ever saw was. "That man can forget." He said. Well the survivors will be the forgetters, "Yeah it was different." Back in the 70s well, they knew but they had to get rid of Carter. Like destroying sculpture they tore the solar panels off the White House. You hardly, if ever even saw a picture. It is mythical. Since I will be dead, well they can deal with it. Don't even blame me. I had no money. I was lucky to get a life at all. There were some good times. Dances. I remember one. Girl spinning and the right steps. I nearly killed myself, nearly a couple of times. At some point then there is the great dictator to come. Put the turbines in the gulf stream, and put solar on every goddamned roof. Just do it. Like and you'll see nothing but a finger pointing. Course the number one fingernail issue is those bombs and the apocalyptic riot more likely. Yeah bad, bad, but look on the bright side, global warming turns to cooling, great huh? Jared Diamond got depressed about Hispaniola and Turrilio had people chopped up for burning trees, just being there. Things are so bad now they strip people of citizenship. Never imagined I'd hear of that one.

[@kristinamazeikiene1959]

we are homeschooling family. In our fifth grader's science study we learned how plants evolved to collect the solar energy. They bring, trap and disperse solar energy here on our planet. the Forest is our savior. .. So how do I explain my fifth grader that we cut all our trees and forests which are our life support on this planet? How do i explain that science is good and studying is good when all our science led to complete self destruction...

[@catharinemellor9854]

From Moby Dick to the Titanic.

[@jamietfranklin]

the power of catharsis

[@patricklarry6645]

The sun is in a cooling phase. So please just remember that the sun plays a major factor on climate on the planet.

[@sneakapeek2577]

search in google " venice water" levels .. alarmist will be sad, ... lowest in years! wow! .. but i certainly appreciate their passion on the subject of Mother Earth , i think soon they'll have to categorize these folks in the same camp as social justice warriors.

[@azzym8794]

*If you makes homes with matchwood (like in USA) the first first storm that comes along will smash the houses to smithereens. The problem is not the storm. The problem is the way houses are built. Houses in the third world are made out of concrete, bricks stone and adobe. They will just laugh at sandy etc.**

[@HomeBummingit]

I know what you mean.

[@Stadtpark90]

15:14 - 16:11

[@ChateauGuitars]

What are we to make of this discussion when many scientists have debunked the topic. Are we to believe the science or the filmmaker? And if two scientists disagree? which are we to believe?

[@WithoutRemorse12]

Were these Scientists not funded by right wing think thanks and research groups? If so we can have a possible debate. It's in everyone's interests to diversify the energy economy.

[@thalesnemo2841]

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. “ --- Winston Churchill

[@mogem]

sorry to bring bad news and all, but I've seen this movie (metaphorically), EVERYONE DIES!