(2008/10/01) Taking comfort from history (MP3)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2008
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the best of the left podcast with clips today from the 11th hour trailer, |
| 0:13.3 | the NPR, the onion radio news, democracy now, and this brave nation. |
| 0:30.6 | There's a fundamental illusion in the world that somehow people are separate from nature. |
| 0:33.9 | What we saw with Katrina is just prologue. There isn't one living system that is stable or is |
| 0:38.9 | improving. Our food is becoming poison or some crisis that has occurred to come. |
| 0:44.0 | Human beings are the source of the problem we can be the foundation of the solution. |
| 0:52.9 | We face a convergence of crises. Industrial civilization has caused irreparable damage, |
| 0:59.0 | and our impact is only accelerating. The tragedy is the potential extinction of humankind. |
| 1:06.0 | By the middle of the century there may be 150 million environmental refugees. |
| 1:10.4 | Not only is it the 11th hour, it's 1159. The problem is not a problem of global warming, |
| 1:15.5 | the problem is not a problem of waste. The problem is the way that we are thinking. |
| 1:20.8 | What we've lost is the beauty of the world and we make up for it with attempting to conquer the world. |
| 1:27.6 | So what are we to choose to eradicate ourselves from this earth? The earth goes no way. |
| 1:33.9 | The earth has a whole time in the world and we don't. |
| 1:41.6 | I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us |
| 1:47.5 | and we treat that life with great humility and respect. |
| 1:51.1 | This is all hands on deck time so that in the future people will back at this time that this |
| 2:04.0 | was our finest hour. What a great time to be alive because this generation gets to |
| 2:09.0 | completely change this world. Our response depends on the conscious evolution of our species |
| 2:15.4 | and this response could very well save this unique blue planet for future generations. |
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