57. This is how we save humanity from climate catastrophe - LIVE SHOW
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
We live in a time of crisis and catastrophe - and it goes much further than COVID-19. Capitalism is driving the world to the edge, as ever more concentrated ownership, major corporations and Big Finance put profit before human comfort, happiness and even existence. Is the climate emergency going to doom us all?
I'm joined by two brilliant guests - Mathew Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton, the authors of the new book 'Planet on Fire' - which sets out a new vision for the world, reimagining production, consumption, exchange, work and leisure, "based on principles of equality, deep freedom, solidarity, sustainability and democracy."
Also - how the Bristol's police's claims of serious injuries collapsed, and what that means.
If you're feeling downbeat about everything, this is for you!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Sorry, bit weird. inexplicably turned it to |
| 0:11.0 | come at the fog there's an intro. Hello, this is Aaron Jones on YouTube. We did stop doing |
| 0:16.8 | the Thursday live shows, but I just thought ad hoc. I mean, I wasn't going to get out to |
| 0:20.3 | the pub was I. So I thought ad hoc, we do occasional shows. If you're watching live, |
| 0:26.8 | if you're listening to the podcast also, hello, the podcast have been very strong, which has |
| 0:30.8 | been very exciting. Do leave a review in five stars if you're on the podcast. And if you haven't |
| 0:36.2 | subscribed to the podcast, please do do do so. I'm going to kick off the far I do. We've got a very, |
| 0:43.6 | very exciting program today. Okay, look, I know the titles depressing and various experts on |
| 0:50.9 | political framing have been in touch to say the title is a big no, no, you should not be |
| 0:56.9 | catastrophist language about climate emergency. It's demobilizing and I get, okay, I messed up. |
| 1:06.5 | I probably should have said, how are we going to save humanity rather than maybe just start on |
| 1:11.2 | the off with, are we all going to die? I realize this is not the serious time we've ever spent |
| 1:17.2 | alive as human beings in the post-war period, as is. So maybe throwing that in hasn't helped. |
| 1:22.8 | But that doesn't matter because we've got two absolutely incredible authors, Matthew Lawrence and |
| 1:27.6 | Lawrence, Laurie Laban, who are going to come on and talk about planet on fire, which again is |
| 1:34.4 | actually full, brimming full of alternatives of hope. So this is going to be a very hopeful |
| 1:40.8 | and optimistic ab hoc show. Now, just firstly, I'm going to do some basic admin. If you're watching |
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