Planet B: Jeremy Corbyn on Green Industrial Revolution (Bonus interview)
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🗓️ 17 October 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of Planet B Everything Moss Change. I'm Daliya |
| 0:09.9 | Geprille. This episode features an extended edition of our interview with UKMP and former |
| 0:16.2 | leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn. You may have heard snippets of this interview |
| 0:21.2 | in our documentary about work and climate breakdown. If you haven't, make sure you check |
| 0:26.2 | that out on the Navara Media podcast feed. Before we get started, a reminder that you |
| 0:32.0 | can order a free copy of perspectives on a global green new deal, the illustrated book on |
| 0:37.3 | which the series is based at www.global-gnd.com. |
| 0:45.2 | Jeremy Corbyn, thank you so much for joining us. It's an absolute honour to have you. So, |
| 0:52.7 | trying to get change as radical as the green industrial revolution put through at the highest |
| 0:59.1 | levels of government, especially in a government in a country like Britain, which is a global |
| 1:05.7 | power. It's a very unique experience. It's not one that many people have. Can you tell us |
| 1:12.5 | what you learned about trying to get transformative climate policy pushed through at such a high |
| 1:18.7 | level? What were the challenges? What would you do differently? And what are your learnings that |
| 1:24.2 | you would give to those who are picking up the mantle from this work, both inside and outside of |
| 1:30.0 | Parliament? You have to take the mass of people with you. You have to campaign. You have to engage. |
| 1:37.1 | You have to listen. You have to learn. And understands that all these decades of environmental |
| 1:44.3 | campaign have had an effect. They've mobilised a lot of people. They've made a lot of people |
| 1:48.2 | very aware of things. But they've also given the very biggest and most polluting industries |
| 1:54.1 | a lot of very smart ideas. The green wash they come out with is unbelievable. They will tell you |
| 2:00.4 | anything is sustainable. They're doing it in the most sustainable way. They will tell you that |
| 2:05.7 | flying is sustainable, that jet engines are sustainable, that mining is sustainable. Everything |
| 2:10.6 | apparently can be made sustainable. And my concern is that COP26 will come up with an aspiration |
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