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Episode 198 - To The Ends of the Earth" (w/ George Monbiot)

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Bad Faith

News, Comedy, Politics

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This week Briahna speaks to environmental activist, author, & journalist George Monbiot about the state of nature: that is, the global warming, the left's growing frustrations with electoral solutions, the tension between individual "green" choices and the scale of industrial pollution, and why George doubts Marx can help with this one.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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0:00.0

We can change these systems. They're all human-made systems.

0:04.7

And if we don't change these systems, we're toast.

0:07.2

There was no way we're going to get through this century without a radical change.

0:11.6

It's isn't a luxury.

0:13.4

If this isn't something that would be nice to have, let's have a happier world.

0:17.2

Let's have a world.

0:18.9

Let's have a planet. Let's have a habitable planet.

0:21.3

That's what we're talking about.

0:22.8

Because without that radical change, we will not have a habitable planet.

0:27.3

And all our dreams. All our nightmares, all our hopes, all our fears, everything we wish for,

0:32.8

everything we imagined for ourselves.

0:34.7

It's a little bad to become completely irrelevant because there will be nothing.

1:02.1

I'm so excited to be joined today by George Monpio, who is an environmental activist and author.

1:07.5

He writes a weekly column for Vaguardian and has all around been an inspiration to many.

1:13.7

As we face down this tiger that is feet dragging on climate activism as it's a clock counts down.

1:19.5

Welcome to Bad Faith Podcast.

1:21.6

Thank you so much. Well, it's a great pleasure to be talking to you, Brianna. Thank you.

1:26.0

Well, part of why I wanted to talk to you is because some of the feedback I've gotten is

1:30.0

that people are really frustrated by climate activism episodes.

1:35.1

They feel as though we are so far behind, like they're so little political traction,

1:40.5

that it's just too

1:42.3

dispiriting to even discuss on some level.

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