So happy to know that George Monbiot is everywhere putting his message out there! His critique about the damaging destructive capitalist economic system that has a tight grip on the world is something I've felt for decades ever since I was a teenager, I always knew there was something wrong with the way we live our lives, long before I'd heard of him and long before I knew and understood what was happening to our environment. I thought I was the aberrant one. But my mindset fits in with what he's saying, it makes sense to me. Climate breakdown wasn't a thing when I was a kid: it was never taught, nor was it talked about. I grew up in a time when dawn choruses were commonplace even in the city but have now dwindled in many places to a silence. It took decades for that to happen. I guess it just snuck up on us locally without us noticing. We took the wrong path and now we are beginning to pay: we are on the brink of the collapse of the world's life support systems. It has really come to this: we must reverse what we are doing. We MUST. I must believe it isn't too late. We need forward-thinking politicians to be brave enough to listen, learn and to change their mindset. Unfortunately they won't do it alone: they want to cling to the status quo because it benefits them the most. They have to be made to change. So God bless George Monbiot and people like him: they are the voices of our times and of the future.

I will vote for George..... He's the man🙏🙏🙏😎

An inspiring and hope-giving talk by Monbiot. I found the participatory governance and budgeting examples like Porto Alegre and Reykjavik especially interesting. Yes, we need to find a simple grand narrative that makes sense for the majority.

This is a great talk! I particularly like the bit about volunteers; indeed, there is nothing the right volunteer cannot do....

We need a complete political census on people's political alignment based on issues. We need to know where people genuinely stand on key things. We now have the capabilites to do this kind of census efficiently online. People are devided on everything an no one party represents everyone. Even within house holds. Do people vote? Why not? Are they aligned with one party? Are they floating voters. Each policy in the manifesto. How people feel about immigration, Race, cultural identity, asylum, foreign aid. Are we a racist country? Foreign policy, EU relations, Brexit, US relations, wars. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria. Our parliamentary system. Our voting system. Our MP's. There are a million polarising questions. We need a system which clarifies all these issues. We should start with a compulsory political concensus. An find out what is really going on. People are acting on our behalf with no real clear mandate. Self examination is necessary.

George Monbiot makes a lot of sense.

Spread share,,,👌🏿

Participatory Democracy, I like that!

Look up The Zeitgeist Movement, and The Venus Project. Some of Kim Stanley Robinson`s SF (Blue Mars, the `Pacific Edge`series) is also worth reading on this topic.

George Monbiot is a hero and a genius. The Bahai spiritual system given to us by Baha"u"llah [the Glory of God] in the 1800s is already in place around the planet. I think it is time to look at this spiritual system of politics, business , a civilisation based on spiritual principles instead of the materialistic systems that has brought humanity to this point.

I sure Hope all this presentation of Good Ideas and important discussion is being written down?

WE are on the same page! Yes to participatory community lead initiatives, Yes, it is feasible, Yes, we need new narratives, Yes to Bernie Sanders' political organizational methods, Yes, to the idea of 'commons,'

Good old Michael Albert has been banging on about participatory economy for decades, I hope it’s an idea whose time has come

I'll talk about this today and tomorrow on the Startup Show. 10 a.m. MDT, noon Pacific on Facebook live video.

Excessive consumerism hasn’t just damaged the planet, but if comes to the point ppls bodies too

I've had dealings with natural England trying to create sustainable living projects near NOT on SSSI LAND I'm not rich , naturally England found it a lot more important to concentrate on fighting me than my rich neighbours surprise surprise they fought the people who couldn't afford to fight back they were so indicative of the problem not a solution .

You need to tell us what the RSA is.

Presentation starts at 6:19

Is new always better?

Below is in response to todays article you wrote in the guardian.

30:25- someone's phone is ringing. Please put it on vibrate. Lol.

Neoliberalism is the problem. Worker-owned cooperatives are the solution.

Great, but Monbiot underestimates the stubborn adherence of right-wingers to their Party and Leader, so somehow this needs to be defeated and lessened before the new story can win.

consent based system.....

Being a Vegan in this Anthropene Outbreak is like being an ant in a hurricane...

hi george the word is tenure not tenor thanks

So, central planning ... got it. Innovative! :|

I thing this video need subtitle in the other language... Especially turkish 🙏🙏

Is he arguing for libertarian socialism!?

It doesn't help by continuing to pretend to be 'sapient' and 'civilised'... These are the blind assumptions that lead to all other 'wrongness' in human activity..

Poor old Georgie just can't accept that communism never has, and never will, work.

...and then we had the 2019 election. lol.

Nice try George but this is just nice politics for nice politics sake. This is all just about the process of politics. You cannot create culture without purpose. The process is not the purpose. The process serves the purpose. Culture without purpose it falls into identity politics and you're back where you started. To inject energy into a new politics or create this sense of 'community' there must be new compelling vision of the future. A new narrative. Not the same old 'let's look after less privileged'. The crisis in politics and in society exists because there is no one advancing a compelling narrative.