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George has a great intellect that is fully engaged and he is obviously emotionally connected to action on climate change. It is refreshing to see that he has not been coopted by some major corporate interest otherwise the force of that intellect would be quickly neutered and all but lost to humanity.
I had 2 moments recently where i was flabbergasted at the incredible lack of knowledge around me.... I was on a livestream and talking about pesticides and climate change. Not a single person on the livestream saw any correlation between those 2 things, at all. I was at work at a gas station and i talked about the importance of ending the usage of fossil fuels. I had an 80 yr old lady ask me "well, whats more important, your job or the planet?" She was shocked when i said "the planet" So much work to reverse those attitudes...
Excellent talk by Monbiot, bravo! Engaging, edifying, critical, exact. It is as he says, all about political will, consumption, advertising/celebrity, widespread lack of science understanding, education and respect for truth and fact.
Brilliant discussion on joining the dots. Naomi Klein has made quite a switch from the socio political to including the envinronemt but the envirnmental movement needs to do the same. All the best for a green MP in Bristol.
362 Likes...... Since JULY!!!!! This is one of the most sensible informative talks I've heard. We are truly doomed if we can't get the message out...... Anyway George.... I heard you have a sick fascination with reading readers comments. If you read this one I'd love to know what you think to the society being carved out by the revolution in Rojava (Northern Syria) and how the feminist and ecological revolution using much of Murray Bookchins work rewritten by Ocalan could possibly be a future anti capitalist society.
George Monbiot is a hero of our times. Every massacre of the truth only succeeds in bringing the people who struggle to live in the light closer together. The future of humanity is unity in diversity, unity under the umbrella of the cosmological constant.
Logic and commonsense strongly suggests that a system where the lobbying of government by mega rich industries is allowed is not going to be very beneficial for the masses and the planet. Hence we are where we are.
Me and my wife went to a proper vegan eating place.I like meat once in a while but their food was top notch.Tasty and what I like the food digest far better than lumps of meat.I am about 80 percent vegetarian and I must admit healthier for me.Also if we stop buying clothes to be dropped in the bin or got writ of because it is the fashion we are behaving like fools.Walk more.Let you kids walk to school instead of treating them like little puppies because they never grow up and still be living with you went you want them out.
Refreshing listening to George great man and he is so right.I remember and this is a different subject watching a program after dark on channel 4 .That was soon stopped because to many truths came out what is really happening on this planet political wise.The excuse to shut it down was because Oliver Reed was drunk and became a bit of a nuisance.
""Can any melting or burning imaginable get rid of these ever-rising mountains of ruin-especially when the things we make and build are beginning to look more and more like rubbish even before they are thrown away?"" Alan Watts en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts
Excellent talk! Love George Monbiot! Thank you for mentioning the books, authors and organizations: Jeremy Lent, Doughnut economy, Rewilding the land, etc. Will read!
George, with planned grazing even more CO2 can be sequestered than on ungrazed grassland. The destruction of the atmosphere and environment does not happen from family farms but from CAFOs (Confined animal feeding operations) and the agribusiness practices and mindset.
The soil is our best way to sequester CO2 . Even better than forest, Importantly, we have destroyed almost half the soil of our planet since the industrial revolution through desertification, Agribusiness farming in recent years and poverty. The monoculture deserts sustained with chemicals and bio poisons have reduced the soil to CO2 emitters by reducing it to dust! and worse not only the decimation of insect species we depend on to pollinate crops but the poisoning of our offshore waters creating dead zones is the cost. The grip of agribusiness on farming has to change. There are already projects around the world devoted to land regeneration, and the results are there to see, desert turned to fertile land in as little as 5 years. But without a concerted effort at scale the task is impossible
Consumer behavior drives production. Simply going vegan solves 90% of these problems according to standard agricultural science, climate science, and economics.
Simply going vegan without understanding that 'standard agricultural science' is bought and paid for by chemical corporations would be disastrous. Sure, if you want to support Monsanto and Bill Gates' fake green revolution which is really a total commodification of nature for capitalism, then just demand the banning of animal farming without thinking about what that really means. Industrial chemical agriculture causes more ecosystem destruction than any other system we use. We have to stop using industrial chemicals, pesticides and synthetic fertilizers and tillage of land, and start using regenerative practices that involve regenerating living ecosystems to share food from. This has been researched and is being promoted by farmers following the practices, so why isn't George the Saint talking about this? Why is he simply advocating a position that strengthens the position of chemical corporations like Monsanto? We cannot continue farming the way it is now, the standard position is a non sustainable system that is destroying living ecosystems. Instead of burning and chemicalizing Brazil and the Amazon, we should be learning how to share the foods created within living ecosystems, as many are doing but not being promoted by big names like George or Greta. There are better ways. Ask George to read the work of Vandana Shiva and many others. We cannot continue with industrial chemical agriculture, this is causing the 6th extinction more than anything else. Please wake the hell up George.
@@spinkyl9559 You seem unaware that 90% of soy and 50% of grains are fed to livestock to produce meat. If meat production ended The majority of agricultural land can be returned to wilderness and everyone can easily be fed with organic farming. The only reason for GMO, agrochemicals, etc is the meat industry demand for massive amounts of animal feed (soy, grains, etc) to be grown at very high yield/acre.
@@mrknesiah @Spink L is right. What you don't seem to understand is that only a small fraction of the land we use for agriculture is suitable for growing crops, the rest is either too Rocky, too steep, to dry etc. Grass fed animals raised in holistic grazing pattern which mimic the grazing patterns of the vast rument herds that once covered the African, American, Asian and European savannhs actually improve the soil and sequester carbon, increasing water stored in the soil, which then increases the growth of grasses and forbes which then restores land that was lost hundreds and maybe even thousands of years ago to desert. George Monbiot calls for rewilding, which is fantastic, but what he doesn't seem to realise is that introducing large ruminates such as bison and buffalo without the pack predator such as wolves and lions which cause these animals to bunch tightly in herds and constantly keep on the move will degrade the land just as fast as current set stocking grazing practices. Monbiot has admitted that bringing back the wolf to the UK is not likely to be feasible but if the try and rewild without them it will be an utter disaster. Alan Savory, Gabe Brown, Charles Massy are just a few of the farmers, scientist and ecologist who are working with natural system to bring us back from the brink of climate disaster and livestock are an essential component of this. It's not the cow, it's how they are managed that is the problem.
@@mrknesiah eating grass fed meat is not unsustainable, it is part of a productive ecosystem- rewilding will remove our ability to produce enough food without increasing expensively transported imported food.
1:42:40 - Monbiot says, "Why adults feel this urge to try and tear down this 16 year-old with Aspergers just defeats me". Jealousy? At least she has managed to turn these people green as well as many others.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WHoxAlcdWV4.html. She is partnering with globalists to promote the Climate Change agenda which is a precursor to a new world order (they call it a Global Pact). The swamp is big.
@@ScreamingReel500 the swamp is big? What do you mean? The swamp we're in, or something new? A global environmental pact. No definition. No parameters? How is that meant to be a bad thing? Worse than unsustainable capitalism and consumerism? Change is imminent. Greta is an agent of change she will not be the one to shape that change. What are you doing? Please tell us where we go from here to support and shape the changes that will come? I chose to believe that you have some thoughts on this and are not just sniping at a child fighting bravely against planetary destruction.
3.5% seems doable, but then look at Hong Kong, they have had at least 10x that with all kinds of disruptive activity for months and the government is barely budging. I guess having China behind the government makes a big difference, but I would have expected Carrie Lam to step down by now.
George, answer this: if livestock keeping is banned, how exactly are plant foods to be grown? Do you support the chemical industrial agriculture system, which is equally as destructive of living ecosystems as industrial livestock systems? The facts you have yet to research from relevant sources are on regenerative agroecology. You simply cannot develop regenerative agroecology without animals on the land. Animal manures are the key to nutrient flows and soil microbiology health. Chemicals and synthetic fertilizers are the cause of massive environmental damage, most misunderstood being the SOIL MICROBIOLOGY. We NEED animals on regenerative farms to keep soil ecosystems as the base of living ecosystems alive. There is no entire farm ecosystem without animals.
You're not thinking about this clearly. Livestock displaces natural wildlife and is the only reason why chemical fertilizer and GMO high yield seeds and all the other horrors of monocrop agriculture are required. A return to crop rotation and other traditional methods will reduce yeild per acre but if animal feed isnt required then there would be sufficient acres to feed 20 Billion humans. If meat were banned, most agricultural land can simply be restored to carbon sequestering wilderness.
@@mrknesiah you need to rethink this. Animals are part of the crop rotation system- the fallow period is grass for animals. Vegans cannot live sustainably in UK- Stop buying imported vegetables and beans. Throughout Europe humans have lived in an ecobalance until the last 150 years when chemicals usage and advances in our living standards have outstripped our ability to support ourselves. I agree that GMO and Roundup are unsustainable and factory farming also. We will have to go back to living standards of pre industrial revolution to be sustainable.
@@margaretdent1312 the UK population cannot be supported by UK agriculture as it stands. Animal feed imports represent a larger area of source land than vegitable imports. Vastly cutting down animal farming would free up enough land to feed the UK with native crops. Most animal feed in the UK comes from Argentina. The idea that UK farm animals are supported entirely by the land they inhabit is entirely false.
@@Jimmy4video Not disputing this, however, I live in the Pennine Dales and low input livestock farming supports our community, no other crops will grow here and turning our AONB into a wilderness will deprive the community of its tourist income- causing more unemployment. We have the highest proportion of wading birds in the country, this is a vibrant and sustainable ecology.
@@margaretdent1312 it's a lot to hit farmers with and no doubt there are cases that do favour farm animals but a fair start would be to say, no imports of animal feed. Then start cutting into grain and soya crops grown just to feed livestock. If none of that affects the animals on a farm then those animals are in equilibrium with their environment and that's probably sustainable.
'We don't presume consent when it comes to sex why do we accept it in politics?'. It goes further than that, why do we accept presumed consent when it comes to extinction?
We need to be radical, And millions of people down tools and walk onto roads and runways. Stop the traffic. Stop the madness. Demand change. Block off downing Street
We can( and need to) use the world’s ICE vehicles to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere by running them on ‘Carbon Negative Algea Bio Fuel’,the Internal Combustion Engine( ICE)was responsible for much of the atmospheric CO2 due to them running on Carbon ‘Positive’( or Carbon based) fuel. Now if those same Engines were run on a Carbon Sequestering Bio Fuel such as Algea Bio Fuel is grown using waste watert so saving lots of energy that is currently used in energy intensive waste water treatment. Plus from every gallon of Algea Bio Fuel, 10 pounds of nutrient rich( high in Omega 3 etc) Carbon residue is produced and permanently removed from the atmosphere. Photo Bio Reactors( PBR) can grow Algea Vertically in glass tubes and are easy, cheap and quick to build. It is possible to roll out PBR across the country in every village, town, neighbourhood and city in just a few years, we MUST make this transition asap. Electric Vehicles( EV) are not the answer as we don’t have the time to build billions of new vehicles( of whatever type) also the vast amount of resources and energy to make them could finish us off. Also EV are not Sustainable as they rely on non renewable Lithium, Cobalt, Manganese etc which is very destructive when mined as they use strip/open cast mining and uses large amounts of water in evaporation ‘pools’in Arid Regions. Also EV only cause emissions( in their manufacture from Mines, to Road), they can’t be used to sequester CO2 as the ICE could, and seeing as roads take up a lot land we NEED to utilise that land as a Carbon sink. Carbon Negative Algea Fuel would mean in effect we would be using the world’s ICE’s as Carbon Capturing machines. Another positive to rolling out PBR’s is it would create millions of new local Green jobs and bring £millions to communities and regional economies, and could fund the transition to a Sustainable future. So Algea Bio Fuel is a viable, positive low tech solution, in every aspect its a winner!.
"Decoupling" is designed as a salve for the consciences of the rich and powerful. Much decoupling involves an horrific virtue signalling, where negative feedback consequences are overlooked, particularly by zealous governments and authorities. Take the plans to exponentially extend Ultra Low Emmission Zones in major cities. This will necessitate the effective crushing of functional vehicles. What is this polluting, energy-wasting and entirely unnecessary recycling meant to bring. Certainly more poverty, and more pollution via the necessary replacement of older vehicles, the plundering of earth's resource to produce problematic batteries with yet unknown pollution potential. "Re-using" is far better for the environment. Authoritarian bureaucrats and career politicians are jumping on a supposed decoupling model that isn't one at all. They plan to bring our cities to a virtual standstill. I've done my bit for decoupling by not having children. But our political and high-level bureaucratic "Royalty" are sure to have wonderful, privately educated children who will rule the world wisely? It's still Eugenics of a sort, certainly hubris and arrogance that informs public policy and Realpolitik.
Very knowledgable conversation and very realistic to a point. The great threat to the planet is HUMAN OVER POPULATION. Of course, the battle against planned parenthood and women's education is at the forefront but there is NOTHING that is wrong with climate and environmental breakdown that can't be blamed on the human population nor is anyone willing to discuss that problem to the a degree that will make people stop having children for the sake of humanity and species that support them.
there is PLENTY wrong with ‘environmental breakdown’ that can't be (conveniently) blamed on human population. Did you actually listen to what he said about rampant, raging capitalism? Larger population levels means more consumers, a situation capitalists absolutely encourage, but over-consumption is the root cause of the current emergency. I agree the population issues doesn't need addressing, but fairer wealth distribution (from Global North and West to the South and East) will lead to smaller families. Please review your lazy blame-game and check your facts and - ‘for the sake of humanity’. Thank you.
James Boyer Well said, and certainly not deserving of a snarky retort. Sure lower population is implicit in ending growth and capitalism, but lowering the population needs to be explicitly exhorted because it’s the basis of de growth in all other areas from fossil fuels to soil regeneration.
@@mrjohnnytoobad 'but fairer wealth distribution (from Global North and West to the South and East) will lead to smaller families' That statement is the very problem we face. Developed countries have overburdened the 'natural resources' of the planet and 'allowing' less developed countries to share the wealth will push (I hate this term) 'natural resources' to the breaking point and environmental collapse. I see no solution to this path of capitalistic suicide. E.O. Wilson's plan to place half the planet in sanctuary from humans is the only logical plan. AND a moratorium on fishing for at least 10 years would be nice. (Good luck with that.)
An English Nurse Rhyme The hand the man and flog the woman that steal the goose from off the common, but let the greater villain loose that steals the common from the goose. The law demands that we atone when we take things we do not own, but leaves the lords and ladies fine who take things that are yours and mine. Circa 1764
37:20 it seems like she just had her enthusiasm yanked out, she ask him again how to stop carbon dioxide from building up in the atmosphere, stop nonessential flying, stop eating meat, all meat. That's fish to. And stop driving anything that burns gas or diesel fuel. I've done the first two,and I'm Working on the last one. I need someone to buy me a onewheel.
People are not going to regress just because you put the word "Emergency" in a statement, aircraft as a form of transport are here to stay, there are at least eight other countries that are at the pinnacle of polution, vast amounts of greenhouse gasses that far exceeds "anything" that the UK emits ..Yes, we need to protect our planet, but collectively, and the worst polluters ( China USA and India ) must do more to control their emissions, but prople and commerce certsinly won't stop travelling by aircraft,, that's just something you need to accept George Guru.
@@antoniagodber1168 They make things that the whole world consumes, so does Thailand, India, Taiwan and Vietnam .... a global consumer monster that I admit is of our own making, but shifting the eco argument to aircraft doesn't solve anything, because there is no way goods and people are going back to crossing continents by ship, and that is just a fact, an unpalatable one, but a fact nonetheless.
Not a good representation by Tubsy: "The Land is Ours is a British land rights campaign advocating access to the land, its resources, and the planning processes set up in 1995 by George Monbiot and others" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_is_Ours
That's a new one "environmental perfectionism".. interesting. Random thought: our forced agitation of natural atmospheric, aquatic, terrestrial and biological balance leading to the destruction and transformation of our habitat is greatest collectively made interactive artwork in history. Using our own psychology within heavy industry and fed by consumerism to forever change our habitat.
But George, there can be an end to growth, without suffering, if we reduce procreation. This, naturally means that we must guarantee the well-being of those that now and in the near future depend on extended families, particularly in old age. The United Nations, the United World must guarantee the safety and future of the older generations.
There is no such thing as "state communism." That is an oxymoron. What you refer to as state communism was, in fact, state capitalism. If you cannot understand something as basic as that, you have problems with logic.
Yes. Over the decades I've heard news snippets of many human groups doing communism, which is (apparently) a system in which everybody is equal and a select few of them are waaaaaaaaaay more equal than the unwashed others. Surprising that it's so very different from the extremely free enterprise method.
It's really really disappointing that George Monbiot doesn't know of or understand holistic grazing. Which is ironic because it mimicks the very rewilding he is calling for but also provides a valuable source of protein for humans with virtually non of the corporate industrial chemicals and fertilisers while also sequestering carbon in the soil.
@@margaretdent1312 Good. We need more wolfs to bite ranchers ass. Less big landowners in sheep-clothing industry, pretending to be a vital part of the economy, when in fact just holding a tight grip on the barren land in order to collect subsidies from other's people work.
capitolism requires perminant growth to survive' we are trillions in debt and the sysyem can only change through crisis,, in fact can yuo be green and a democrat i think not
Grass is the best carbon sink, better than trees, livestock are required to graze and they then provide valuable food to our nation. We need to grow local, eat local and turn off your electricity and gas central heating!
"turn off your electricity and gas central heating". Could work but would be expensive in plumbing charges. Would need to stop piped water and use a compost bucket for poop and rain water for drink & wash. Very Back To Naturish & fun. I'll bet you every one of the bods in that video hall uses just those methods. When snow took the wires down for 37 hours my house was 2 degrees without electricity and gas central heating and heading for -33 degrees the same as outside. I've heard that -33 degrees plays havoc a bit with the water pipes & taps. I mean, apart from that, brilliant foolproof plan.
grindupBaker that part was tongue in cheek as an instruction to ALL Extinction Rebels and their ilk as they are hypocrites. They enjoy all the benefits of our carbon based society.
Hmmm, I think he would stuggle to connect any dots. If I was so inclined. I would love to see this bloke up against Jordan Peterson in a debate. Or Elmo!
@@rollling7523 The whole subject is a joke. Thousands of years on and we still have a herd mentality. People are like farming sheep. If only these morons on both sides would stop exhaling or emitting methane from their arses it would be a beautiful world.
Rollling. Are you sure they are “hoaxers”? Could it be possible that people are just wrong, or misguided? Or maybe they are right? Or maybe somewhere in between?
@@dystopiaeatsmoney Indeed, activists are misguided, they are believers . There have been several doomsday cults before this one. I remember the Club of Rome in the seventies, with lots of scientists, and they were sure we would run out of resources in 10 years. Or the scientist who wrote " The Population Bomb ' and he was sure we would all starve before 2000. They all made big money on their stories. Same now, its a scam.
The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire. They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory. There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,this has all been foretold thousands of years ago there's no way you can stop it
