MONBIOSIS with George Monbiot: Ep15 - Debt for Climate

[@zehrajafri9252]

Great job and great news for the masses and the planet. ❤ ❤ 💚 💚 💚

[@juliahartshorn2473]

Had no idea you had a channel, George Monbiot, what a fantastic surprise, I have subscribed of course. You make a lot of sense and I find your level of research, reflection, and communication a vital resource for everyday people like me in this fast paced, oppressive economic and political landscape. Very much appreciated your new book, by the way, too: Invisible Doctrine ~ very enlightening, and a very good starting point to getting to grips on what is happening within the systems of our failing democracies in the west, and what is standing on its neck.

[@edredwhittingham4417]

This was a powerful call to arms. Thank you!

[@miriamdarlington4266]

Subscribed and shared to FB.

[@zehrajafri9252]

It's so great to hear good people talking about the responsibility of corrupt powers, exploiting poorer and smaller countries. Blessings on truth teller's.

[@ruthsustainableme2022]

Definitely time for a big shake up!

[@Skylark_Jones]

The problems I see are the following: 1. The message coming across from Extinction Rebellion and others is that the global South is and will be affected most by climate breakdown, so most people in the UK probably feel it won't hit them in any serious way: they need to know this is not the case: that it will have a big impact on them also and will worsen over time, and they need to know how. 2. Although most people in the UK I would say are aware of the climate emergency, the message from climate scientists: that it's much nearer and therefore worse than we think- isn't coming across, so most people aren't particularly worried: they still think in terms of making individual micro-consumerist change which they think will be enough to make a difference. I spoke to a friend about this: he said that people need to be frightened out of their wits about the climate crisis. 3. People already have a lot on their plates what with the cost of living crisis people are finding it increasingly hard putting food on the table and keeping a roof over their heads. 4. Misinformation from the mass media and big corporations isn't helping to engage with the public on this serious issue of combating climate change, it's shocking. 5. Governments really should be taking the lead to try to galvanise the public and corporations to act with urgency. The government had regular public news briefings on covid: why can't they have the same for the climate crisis which is far more serious?

[@LeanAndMean44]

First of all, it’s clear that you are from the UK and come from a British perspective. I am from Denmark and could come from a Danish perspective but that would be ridiculous, and all of the listest problems are also global issues, so I will try to come from a global perspective on this. 1) Yes that’s a general western idea, but unless the actual reality of extreme weather convinces most people it bullocks, many arguments can. A lot of articles and whole media outlets are working against this (mostly The Conversation and The Guardian and to some extent BBC News), so next time you come across something that debunks this misconception, maybe share it and urge others to do the same? Talking to people is even better, but that goes for every single one of these issues, great to read you talked to a friend about it. I disagree that the idea is coming from activists. They make it very clear it’s an existential threat to all, because the planet’s LIFE-SUPPORT-systems are near tipping points and collapse. People might not understand strong language and words anymore, but that is not to blame on activists. 2) I have already written everything on my mind about that in this comment so far. 3) Yes, they need to understand these are global economic and environmental effects (read for example George’s column in which he compared the food crisis to the financial crisis 2008). Share the column and talk to people. 4) I’m not familiar with every (big) media outlet in the UK and the world. But your country seems to be one of the luckiest still. BBC has very seldomly climate emergency denial, much more often it reports on IPCC reports and alike. The Guardian is clearly the best at this issue. The Independent is pretty neutral (neither denying nor promoting the whole truth). Conservative or what-you-might-call-it newspapers like Telegraph, Mirror, Sun, Daily Mail are in denial, I’ve even seen them push ideas that renewable energy is causing rising energy prices?! (Even though many reports suggest it would have saved British taxpayers billions and ease the cost of living crisis would you have more renewable energy). Sky News is just Murdoch, but how aren’t people aware of that? I thought almost everyone knows him like they know Brad Pitt or whom else. Maybe they just don’t see the problem. 5) Forget the government, forget most of your Parliament most of Labor/Labour (sorry, always forget which party is in Australia and which is UK, very similar names). Forget most of the world’s governments. They clearly don’t care about anything, unless it’s so immediate that it’s immediately obvious and undeniable if they fail and don’t act. I hope Russell Howard can give you a good laugh and help you get through these tough times that will only get worse and worse. Don’t be too sad if our species goes extinct, we kind of deserve it for all we do and have done to ourselves and other species. We will take millions and millions others with us in our extinction, but after that life on Earth can finally flourish again, and no all-dominant, self-destructive species will take over everything so soon again.

[@em945]

@Jay Dee great to see you out trolling again, Jay Dee. Top quality comment, too.

[@em945]

@Jay Dee you are a really boring troll, Jay Dee. Just checked the lastest XR video. There you are, over and over again. Really boring troll , Jay Dee. Consistant, but boring Troll.

[@LeanAndMean44]

@Jay Dee even coming from your viewpoint, why are you arrogant enough to believe you can convince the commenter by just one sentence? “Psst” doesn’t make any sense, as the climate emergency is not accepted by most people or official government or political views, and there is thus no secret contained in that view. If anything, the climate emergency is the secret.

[@LeanAndMean44]

@Jay Dee this platform keeps deleting my comment response to you. I don’t know why. I used no links and no company names or anything. I was trying to refer you to sources that give loads of evidence of the climate emergency. Maybe I can send one link. You’ll see.

[@pathaklalgolder2920]

Very good and courageous discussion

[@LeanAndMean44]

Please promote this channel in your columns and on your website. Edit: Dear George The Guardian hasn’t published a column of yours for more than 10 days, what’s going on? There is something newer on your website, but it’s not a column - it’s an open letter to a farmer. When will you publish next? The latest I have seen from you is a video for double down news on carbon bombs. Even that is getting old.

[@LeanAndMean44]

Also, why haven’t you got a playlist only for your work with Novara Media?

[@AlfredoRoccia]

Germany asking to invest on Fossil Fuels at the current G7, since they don't want to re-open nuclear plants for blind ideology and dogmatism, is not a promising sign...

[@LeanAndMean44]

If you understand German (which seems unlikely judging from your profile name but likely judging from your knowledge about German politics expressed alone in your comment) then please listen two one or both of the two podcasts “Kernenergie? “Eine aussterbende Spezies” AND/OR “Renaissance der Atomkraft? “Vergiftete Scheindebatte” for further information.

[@LeanAndMean44]

It’s not for ideology, it’s for practical reasons. Now they consider it again in the long/term.

[@AlfredoRoccia]

@@LeanAndMean44 Yes, only after realising it is the best help to avoid to crawl back to Putin, and plants' CEO admitted it was not true that re-opening them was impossible, like Schultz and other ministers said. Germans are lucky they already had nuclear plants. Unfortunately, there are still nations which think nuclear is green liquid waste coming out from a semi-open barrel in a dark basement.

[@English_lifestyles]

Your article in The Guardian is easily one of the most deranged things I've ever had the misfortune to read. You don't have to like Trump, but suggesting he's a Putin puppet is such a demonstrable falsehood that it's embarrassing to see a supposed grown up personality repeating it. If however you genuinely believe it, explain why Trump's presidency was the only one this century when Putin didn't invade another country. Oh, and I'll be thinking of you when I go on my second Caribbean holiday of the year in October. I always think of you when I eat steak on a flight.