“Capitalism is Killing the Planet – It’s Time to Stop Buying into Our Own Destruction: A Conversation with George Monbiot”Thursday, 10 February 2022 (10:00-11:30 am PST / 1:00-2:30 pm EST / 6:00-7:30 pm GMT)
Hosted by Elders for Social Justice (ESJ),
Elders Action Network – Arizona Chapter (EAN-AZ), and
Scholarships A-Z (SA-Z), a youth-led activist group based in Tucson, Arizona
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This intergenerational, international, interactive conversation will be centered around George Monbiot’s article of the same name in The Guardian, 30 Oct 2021
This is an opportunity for elders to share a dialogue with young climate and social activists and be guided by one of the most outspoken and influential social thinkers and environmental campaigners of our time.
Globally, crucial systems appear to be approaching their tipping points from climate breakdown, species extinctions, and ecosystem collapse. “Our great intelligence, our highly evolved consciousness that once took us so far, now works against us.” We tend to focus on what George calls “micro-consumerist bollocks,” relatively manageable issues such as plastic straws and coffee cups, instead of facing the huge underlying structural social forces driving us towards catastrophe.
What are these forces? In our lifetimes, corporate marketing and political messaging have turned us from enabled citizens into powerless, obedient consumers. Our drive for continual economic growth is literally killing us. We are in the grip of “a hypnotizing fairytale,” a distortion propagated by all these forces. George Monbiot emphasizes, “In reality, some people are extremely rich because others are extremely poor. … Massive wealth depends on exploitation” – exploitation of fellow humans and the living world.
Our dialogue will culminate in identifying actions that we, young and old, can take together to help reverse our destructive tendencies before it is too late.
George Monbiot is an author, Guardian columnist, and environmental campaigner. His best-selling books include “Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life;” “Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning;” and “How Did We Get into This Mess?”. His latest is “Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis.” George cowrote the concept album “Breaking the Spell of Loneliness” with musician Ewan McLennan and has made several viral videos. One of them, adapted from his 2013 TED Talk, “How Wolves Change Rivers,” has been viewed on YouTube over 40m times. Another, “Nature Now” on Natural Climate Solutions, that he co-presented with Greta Thunberg, has been watched over 60m times. George is working on a new book, to be published in 2022, about how to feed the world without devouring the planet.
Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot present Nature Now, a short video on natural climate solutions
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75 years ago, Eduard Meier was the first to warn about man made climate change, climate destruction, pollution, deforestation, global warming, species extinction, and coined the word “overpopulation”. Since then almost 7 billion people have added to the 2+ billion people back then. You won’t stop the effects until you stop the cause.
https://news.yahoo.com/shaken-fracking-quakes-texas-forced-023440462.html
https://gregdougall.wordpress.com/2021/09/09/running-out-of-time-temperature-and-trees/
Well, it turns out the activists are more concerned about gender pronouns than the cause of environmental destruction. Boy, are they good at asking for money!
We tried.
It’s unfortunate that earthlings continue to degenerate at such a rapid rate. I’ve also been following the news from the Whitehouse and the intelligence departments as they obsess over starting a war with Russia. Another one of Billy’s predictions is rearing its ugly head.
Thanks for contributing there, Greg.
Yes, the brainwashed millennials and their irrelevant, mind-numbingly stupid political correctness.
Perhaps all is not lost, I will be continuing a dialog with Art next week…hopefully.
Looking forward to hearing your dialogue with Art.. hopefully, and with fingers crossed.
Salome
Today i saw this awfull thing in the news.
I cant recall what contact report it was,but i remember billy or .. saying something about this
Dozens of yellow-headed blackbirds mysteriously drop dead in Mexico
video
https://nypost.com/2022/02/12/dozens-of-yellow-headed-blackbirds-mysteriously-drop-dead-in-mexico/