ReWilding Land, People & Wildlife - George Monbiot #171

ReWild Yourself

Daniel Vitalis

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2017

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

“Rewilding holds out hope of a richer living planet that can once more fill our lives with wonder and enchantment.” -George Monbiot

Prolific author George Monbiot joins us to share his niche in the world of rewilding: rewilding the land. George is an investigative journalist who writes a weekly column for the Guardian and is the author of a number of bestselling books, including Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea, and Human Life where he passionately advocates the large-scale restoration of complex natural ecosystems.

To begin our conversation, George takes us back in time to the riveting adventures that began his career in investigative journalism. We cover a lot of ground in this interview, including how his work evolved to covering the large-scale ecological issues of our world, what rewilding means to George and his take on de-extinction. George also presents his argument in favor of fake meat as an option to feed the world’s population and why he does not feel that agriculture of any kind — including regenerative agriculture — is sustainable. While our opinions differed on some things, it was fascinating to hear George’s viewpoint on these controversial topics. Enjoy our conversation exploring George’s important work as an advocate for the rewilding of our earth’s ecosystems!

EPISODE BREAKDOWN:

Show Introduction:
- Hunt + gather updates: Learning to live with a hunting dog and bear fat
Introducing George Monbiot
George’s riveting backstory
Why is 'the loss of wild humans' not making news headlines?
How George came to be working on these big picture ecological issues
What rewilding means to George
Bringing back lost megafauna
Rewilding becoming mainstream out of necessity
A case for fake meat and why (regenerative) agriculture isn’t sustainable
How do we feed the people of the world?
George’s upcoming book
George’s prognosis for the future of the human species

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the rewild yourself podcastakens. Your instincts.
0:14.0	Awakens.
0:16.0	Awakens. Awakens.
0:17.0	You're it instincts.
0:18.0	Awakens. You're it instincts. Welcome back to the Rewild Yourself Podcast. I'm your host Daniel Vitalis.
0:29.0	The show's brought to you by Sir Thrival.com.
0:32.0	We carry a full line of plant, animal, and fungal medicines to help you
0:36.7	survive and thrive in the Anthropocene age. That's what they're calling it, this new age we're living on on the planet
0:43.7	it's like a geological age one that's shaped by human changes to the landscape and
0:48.6	it's certainly altered our food our lifestyle we need support to survive and thrive through that. We need
0:54.9	medicines from our ecosystems and food from our ecosystems. I think it's so
0:58.2	important that you develop a really robust and anti fragile diet.
1:03.2	However you do that through farming and agriculture,
1:06.6	gardening, through rewilding practices
1:09.2	like I'm always talking about here on the show,
1:10.6	hunting and gathering,
1:12.0	through the supplemental medicines and foods you use,
1:15.0	through going to your farmers market, connecting with local food production.
1:18.5	All these things I think are really, really important to having a really robust strategy because we live in an age now where
1:24.6	the environment itself due to what we've done to it kind of wreaks havoc on our own
1:29.2	bodies we got to constantly keep ourselves cleaned out keep ourselves mobile, keep ourselves nourished.
1:34.8	It's getting more and more challenging to do so.
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