George Monbiot on Journalism, Politics and the Climate Crisis

[@lisawilliamson5012]

However much you ramble, George, you are so inspiring... I could listen for hours. Thank you 🙏

[@ralphdoe8308]

This is a brilliant exposé of our collective predicament ... learn something, listen carefully, watch twice!

[@NicholBrummer]

Great discussion. I do feel George should expand on the role of larger grazers, rooters , browsers, and carnivores in what is needed for true rewilding. Also think of how these roled are different in different climates. Wetlands are the best but you cannot easily make wetlands in dry climates (except maybe the okavango).

[@artwillvideos]

George hinted towards the beginning about agriculture, but didn’t drive the point home. It’s animal agriculture that’s the problem. It uses 83% of ag land. We could easily rewild, save water, stop ecosystem destruction and habitat loss, species extinction, etc., if we all chose to adopt, to the greatest extent possible, a plant based diet, preferably 100%. Everyone in the audience, if they are serious about wanting to do something, could do that today, right now. Everything else is just inspiring babble and possibility pontification.

[@davidhilderman]

The ag land used is not arable. You can't use 90% of land used for grazing animals for crops. This is why that land is used for cattle. Find yourself a cattle rancher and learn a few things. No cattle rancher in Canada would put cattle on pasture land that could be tilled for wheat.

[@hooliorama]

In South-West Ontario, some of the best Ag land in the world, 70% of all grain grown goes to animal feed. Globally, 30% of Ag land is not suitable for anything other than pasture (but presumably could be reverted to the wild.)

[@ssorcnivek]

I worry that Orwell would have recognised George Monniot as Big Brother

[@davidhilderman]

Did George get the award for being responsible for the greatest advancement of humanity towards Orwell's 1984?

[@henrietta1066]

Is the New Forest in danger of deforestation.

[@nurtenbakc2562]

Otomatik ceviri de türkçe dili yok

[@ronaldprice8201]

👍 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙢

[@Pixelbeau]

We need a left movement made by left economists.

[@vjillh]

Or, we need to create local complementary currencies designed to meet the needs of people & not profits. I doubt we'll successfully wrest control of our economy from the billionaire class. I think it's better to follow the advice of Buckminster Fuller: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

[@ComUnSas]

Not sure Orwell himself would approve of this choice, not sure at all

[@michaelrch]

Because?

[@sibutterworth6542]

Orwells prize for journalism then promotes Huxley's Brave new world a dystopian society where evevrything you think feel or do is in a pill they give to you. 😂😂😂

[@koerttijdens1234]

We need more leftish activism to make journalism great again.

[@ssorcnivek]

Has George Mobiot ever made a profit (he seems to dislike profit )? What houses has he bought (seems to dislike big houses that the rich buy) . How many mafia crimes in Freeport's has he reported to police or.customs (must be numerous?).

[@deejay7648]

There is no climate crisis.

[@michaelrch]

and the Earth is flat... yeah yeah...

[@lyletv5737]

@@michaelrch stop being guided by the tyrants. Greenland used to be green. Climate changes, get over it.

[@michaelrch]

@@lyletv5737 you have zero clue what you're talking about. If Greenland turns green, we will have 20 metres of sea level rise. Climate changes naturally over tens of thousands of years, not decades. That is the result of putting 2,000,000,000,000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere in about 150 years, more than half of that in the last 30 years.

[@richardboswell9306]

@@michaelrch it's all bull and yes the earth's flat nearly fell off the end

[@henrietta1066]

Libya Greece, Hawai, Canada, Morocco, Spain, Italy.....