Excellent interview and even more pertinent than it was in 2012. The comments on the utility of solar energy in mid-latitudes are more questionable now in the era of more efficient solar PV panels and affordable domestic batteries.
Whoa! 😲 I think the comments about circuses and cakes at 58:45 partially explain how activism has not regained its pre-pandemic momentum (say I, watching UA-cam in my pyjamas on a beautiful sunny day). Yep: more sedentary, less active. Mobilise, mobilise, mobilise!
Hi Green Interview people, great vieos, thanks, can you say when this interview was recorded? I am guessing about 2012? .. ah yeah, the Mitt Romney spaech was 2012 ..
@@mickdaniels1 George Monbiot's message is for the whole world, about the way we produce our food. To watch this (did you watch it?) and think that it was about trying to control people is to completely miss the point. Modern farming, is a major component of the destruction of the environment, we need to collectively find new sustainable ways of producing our food. This may feel threatening, but the alternative is to carry on as if change is unnecessary, which will lead to disaster. Not changing is what the ruling elite want us to do, so they can continue to reap massive profits right up to the point the proverbial hits the fan. Farmers need not lose out if we find the solutions together.
@@declanwk1 when I decided to make a film about the impending danger of catastrophic and unprecedented human caused global warming in 2007 I began to research the subject in detail. Within six months it was clear to me that there was a problem with the theory. The problem was that there was no real evidence to support it. The more research I did the clearer it became that the whole thing is a hoax. This led me to question who could possibly be responsible for such a large scale deception and why would anybody do such a thing. Now 16 years later with a whole lot more research done it would take more time and space than I have here to tell the whole story. My Family and I are 4 years in to a 5 year plan and are very close to being fully self sufficient for food energy and water. Our food is organic we use solar water heaters and solar PV along with a small wind turbine. I make films showing people how we are doing what we are doing. Clearly I agree that there is a better way and leading by example is all I can do. My opinion that catastrophic and unprecedented human caused global warming is a hoax has not changed
With respect to preserving our environment, we have shown again and again that we are not capable of doing so. A combination of our ignorance and conflicting vested interests always seems to frustrate our efforts. It seems to me that the only effective strategy is to set aside large areas and just leave them alone. We might introduce animals and/or plants that have been driven to extinction in the area under question but then get out and don't try to 'manage' the area. We are a species that has an excess of hubris and loves to manage things. We have to understand that we are not capable of managing nature.
On the policy front "nothing happened." In the real world however Tesla has managed to revolutionize the auto industry, solar and wind energy have grown dramatically, batteries have matured and have been successfully deployed on the grid as well as in EVs, the prices of all the clean energy sources have fallen dramatically according to the "laws" of technology disruption, the grid is transforming with introduction of direct current transmission, economic thought has been shaken up by modern monetary theory, we don't think that clean energy will be more expensive and will require huge investments, we recognize that SWB is dramatically cheaper than fossil fuels, we're beginning to recognize that fossil fuels kill people and lots of them, thanks to George in part we're beginning to realize that agriculture can be revolutionized. Robots, mission-drive corporations (Tesla), revolutionizing production again a la Tesla and Elon Musk. Etc. Tony Seba has helped us with his remarkably accurate predictions about disruption. Now we have to force policy makers in reactionary countries like England and the U.S. to embrace the new reality and relaunch the New Deal that we abandoned 80 years ago. We need to make it a Green New Deal We need to re-wild! We need to deal with the unavoidable impacts of warming We need to green the world. isn't it marvelous that an 80 year old man living high in the Rockies can see what is happening and what needs to happen. My little rural electric cooperative claims that we're 100$ day-time solar and we're moving forward.. All because a few of us read and studied and campaigned inspired by people like George and David Roberts and Al Gore and Stephanie Kelton and Tony Seba (the guy I turned to when things seemed too depressing,) Things are bad, very bad, but we can fix them.
"Standard of living" is such a loaded term. If a culture's happiness depends upon coffee grown 5000 miles away, we can never achieve a reduction in environmental damage. Will drinking locally grown herbal tea fail to make us happy? We actually don't need what we think we need to maintain a "standard of living.' Happiness is not extenal stuff.
I never tire of listening to George Monbiot.
As always excellent talk with wisdom and common sense present and accounted for.
Thank you for the wonderful interview! George Monbiot is indeed one of the essential heroes of our troubled times.
Truly incredible!
He ranks right up there with Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov.
A real humanist with enviable intellect!
Excellent interview and even more pertinent than it was in 2012. The comments on the utility of solar energy in mid-latitudes are more questionable now in the era of more efficient solar PV panels and affordable domestic batteries.
It's only the odd comment about Harper that makes one realise this was recorded 10 years ago. Pertinent in 2022 as ever. Thanks both
Thank you!
I;m you number one fan.....
Whoa! 😲
I think the comments about circuses and cakes at 58:45 partially explain how activism has not regained its pre-pandemic momentum (say I, watching UA-cam in my pyjamas on a beautiful sunny day). Yep: more sedentary, less active. Mobilise, mobilise, mobilise!
Hi Green Interview people, great vieos, thanks, can you say when this interview was recorded? I am guessing about 2012? .. ah yeah, the Mitt Romney spaech was 2012 ..
The discussion should be about how to adapt to a warmer environment. Instead of trying to stop the inevitable.
he did not say it would be a warmer environment, he said that it would be an unliveable environment that we cannot adapt to.
He came to Ireland and told our farmers they would have to stop farming, I regard him as poster boy for the elite who want to control us
@@mickdaniels1 George Monbiot's message is for the whole world, about the way we produce our food.
To watch this (did you watch it?) and think that it was about trying to control people is to completely miss the point. Modern farming, is a major component of the destruction of the environment, we need to collectively find new sustainable ways of producing our food. This may feel threatening, but the alternative is to carry on as if change is unnecessary, which will lead to disaster. Not changing is what the ruling elite want us to do, so they can continue to reap massive profits right up to the point the proverbial hits the fan. Farmers need not lose out if we find the solutions together.
@@declanwk1 when I decided to make a film about the impending danger of catastrophic and unprecedented human caused global warming in 2007 I began to research the subject in detail. Within six months it was clear to me that there was a problem with the theory. The problem was that there was no real evidence to support it. The more research I did the clearer it became that the whole thing is a hoax. This led me to question who could possibly be responsible for such a large scale deception and why would anybody do such a thing. Now 16 years later with a whole lot more research done it would take more time and space than I have here to tell the whole story. My Family and I are 4 years in to a 5 year plan and are very close to being fully self sufficient for food energy and water. Our food is organic we use solar water heaters and solar PV along with a small wind turbine. I make films showing people how we are doing what we are doing. Clearly I agree that there is a better way and leading by example is all I can do. My opinion that catastrophic and unprecedented human caused global warming is a hoax has not changed
" Farmers need not loose out if we find the solutions together. " Go on finish the joke ?
With respect to preserving our environment, we have shown again and again that we are not capable of doing so. A combination of our ignorance and conflicting vested interests always seems to frustrate our efforts. It seems to me that the only effective strategy is to set aside large areas and just leave them alone. We might introduce animals and/or plants that have been driven to extinction in the area under question but then get out and don't try to 'manage' the area. We are a species that has an excess of hubris and loves to manage things. We have to understand that we are not capable of managing nature.
We are not separate from nature .it's ourselves that we are failing to manage in nature .cutting geographical areas off solves nothing .
On the policy front "nothing happened." In the real world however Tesla has managed to revolutionize the auto industry, solar and wind energy have grown dramatically, batteries have matured and have been successfully deployed on the grid as well as in EVs, the prices of all the clean energy sources have fallen dramatically according to the "laws" of technology disruption, the grid is transforming with introduction of direct current transmission, economic thought has been shaken up by modern monetary theory, we don't think that clean energy will be more expensive and will require huge investments, we recognize that SWB is dramatically cheaper than fossil fuels, we're beginning to recognize that fossil fuels kill people and lots of them, thanks to George in part we're beginning to realize that agriculture can be revolutionized. Robots, mission-drive corporations (Tesla), revolutionizing production again a la Tesla and Elon Musk. Etc. Tony Seba has helped us with his remarkably accurate predictions about disruption. Now we have to force policy makers in reactionary countries like England and the U.S. to embrace the new reality and relaunch the New Deal that we abandoned 80 years ago. We need to make it a Green New Deal We need to re-wild! We need to deal with the unavoidable impacts of warming We need to green the world. isn't it marvelous that an 80 year old man living high in the Rockies can see what is happening and what needs to happen. My little rural electric cooperative claims that we're 100$ day-time solar and we're moving forward.. All because a few of us read and studied and campaigned inspired by people like George and David Roberts and Al Gore and Stephanie Kelton and Tony Seba (the guy I turned to when things seemed too depressing,) Things are bad, very bad, but we can fix them.
"Standard of living" is such a loaded term. If a culture's happiness depends upon coffee grown 5000 miles away, we can never achieve a reduction in environmental damage. Will drinking locally grown herbal tea fail to make us happy? We actually don't need what we think we need to maintain a "standard of living.' Happiness is not extenal stuff.
'They look at you as if you're talking another language.' Yup.
wow..........
He's also partial to roast squirrel !
min 44. They were never friends in the first place therefore, me thinks,