To the first question asked, (I paraphrase) " How do we wean ourselves off the desire to want more things, to keep up with trends (cell phones cited) and new gadgets that form the new milieu where people communicate, interact, connect, or experience the world?" Here's perhaps a thought experiment we can all try. Not saying it will provide answers, but to each of us, it might lead us to some semblance of balance between desires, trend pressures, and a more sustainable outlook to what we need. It goes like this: Set for yourself, and if you are a couple then it might be useful to do this jointly, a target or set of objectives, you feel will meet your gratification. This will be a comfortable home (perhaps adequate to raise a small family), the type of transportation you would like (this can be public if you live in a city, or if you are the wandering sort, a safe and comfortable car (preferably gets good mileage). And allow yourselves, 3 or 4 pet luxuries (season tickets to support your favourite team, a good camera if you're into photography, (sorry ladies, I have little ideas to what you might like, and I don't want to patronize by citing jewellery, clothing and shoes), but you get the idea. Now strive to get yourselves to these targets. Here's the key. When you more or less get there, stop. There's no need to upgrade your 4cyl 1.6l car to a 3l V8 with double the horsepower. When you get your 3-room apartment or house, there's no need to aim for a 5-room bungalow with a 2-car garage. Make your cell-phone last 3-4 years. Their generally pretty reliable, and can service all your comms and online needs for about that long, there's no need to change to iphone25 just because it was launched and has a snazzier screen or a better camera. Instead, make a conscious decision to switch your focus. To be a present father for your kids. Make time for them. Be a helpful member of your community. You have skills. If you are good with fixing things, help your neighbours when their ceiling fans don't work. If you're in IT, help the elderly neighbour setup conferencing on a computer so they can interact with their grandkids 400miles away. Your goals are now about what you do for others, not how much stuff you accumulate. As a community, we should consciously recognize people who take on these roles. Not with material goods or medals, but with respect and camaraderie. Over time, build a sharing community. Where 1 drill and set of drill-bits can be used by 17 households (I bet most of our drills has not been used for the past 3 months). Where toys and storybooks can be passed among households with suitable age children, because you know who has kids and how old they are. Reduce food waste, if a loaf of bread usually gets moldy before your household can finish it, split it with your neighbour. You get the picture. If 4 households can share and live with what 3 households typically consume, we've reduced consumption by 25%! This is not an oppressive totalitarian order. Not is it communism (as the right will no doubt label it). It is sensible consumption. Treating every resource and goods with the respect it deserves by not wasting it. If a cell-phone can last 3 years, don't upgrade to a new one in 2 years. This will not solve the problems of the world. But a 25% reduction in consumption is not a bad place to start.

Kudos to the audience for some damn good questions.

Wow. Helpful comments here on so many things that are important to me. Thank you!

We need a method of sorting out the sociopaths and psychopaths from public service.

Just brilliant and so thought provoking. Find the hope👏✊

Thanks so much for posting.

"Don't take more than you can keep, give more than you can reap.

❤ I love that the moderator sent the mike back to the guy who left his job in the city to join extinction rebellion. I love the moral integrity he had to say it was privilege that enabled him to do this and that he wouldn’t be able to look his kids in the eye in twenty years time otherwise 😇😍

Amen again dear sir I say. Your words be like a soothi balm to one's mind when most of the world's media, SELL LIES.. Thank you. 🔥❤️

Really enjoyed part one. So insightful. Looking forward to this one

What a remarkable mind, inspiring

The disasters I expected to happen generations in the future are now knocking on our door now! That tells us that we are sleepwalking to our end...We simply cannot take it in. So the media tells us what we want to hear.

Thank you, this talk and the q&a session was SO good!!

Love is our highest aspiration. Beware how love is manipulated. Power seeking is not the same thing.

What gives me hope is that there are so many people who are aware or becoming aware. It is amazing how long this type of process takes. Perhaps this one is being fast-tracked because of the internet. Listening to part 1 and hearing the questions in part 2, show just how much consciousness there is of the dilemma in which we find ourselves. I'm thinking back to my teen years where I had a concern for the earth and its inhabitants, but there was, obviously, no access to the graphic scenes we see on KZfaq and the internet. A static photo in the newspaper did little to convey the actual level of devastation in a war zone or climate catastrophe. Despite the surges of depression and anxiety over the problems, we must never let go of the hand that hope stretches out to us. That is the only way we can actively, rectify anything.

This is damn brilliant

so weird to see a man say "ideology" and "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism" without mentioning zizek or mark fisher. at least graeber got a shout out

I care, George.

And this brilliant talk was before corona accelerated political divisive behavior.

Looking at that screen I see two comfortable chairs, a table, a vase, bunch of flowers making the view worth being seen. My mind feels at peace in this homely surrounding. In this cosy atmosphere I hear GM encouraging me with his bright ideas. What if we see GM sat cross legged on a mat and expressed his thoughts would I be equally impressed. I think I would if I was in India, may be in a buddhist temple surrounded by trees. Europeans do not stand a chance to practice a way of life that GM is proposing which is taken from granted in Indian tradition.

Does anyone out there find it very strange that according to Alphabet/u-tube there has been so few views and a incredible low percentage of likes? One certainty is that those that claim ownership of virtually everything won't like Maybiots dessemination of their ideologies.

Ship of Fools!! This is what Jim Morrison had to say on our trajectory....

Good on you

A system of infinite growth can ONLY be stopped by making it financially worthwhile to SHARE the jobs we NEED people to do and work much LESS.....no more working and doing anything FOR money. Sharing the resources would be automatic once you get people sharing the jobs we NEED people to do and not working FOR money. You certainly can't stop growth by working harder or doing even more work. You wouldn't need volunteers for anything if we decide it's a job we need to have done. It would be worthwhile to do the job.

I totally agree with the woman who talked just about the need for caring,for ourselves,for each other and for the earth...maybe so much of this needless consuming we do often comes from a deep lack of feeling cared for...not always of course.. but I know much of my own "overconsumption" or when I buy things I know I don't need is in fact just a poor substitute for other things lacking in my life like relationships and community

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist

come on! this needs more views!

You cannot impose your beliefs on the universe, to change your worldview is hard, but now we are faced with, not to change will be at our peril.

WE have to decide what jobs/work WE need and want to have done and it must be made worthwhile for us to SHARE it....the slaves decide what they do for themselves...no more building the castles for the kings and pyramids for the pharaohs or doing the jobs that only harm the planet but simply SHARING the jobs we NEED to have done.

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IMHO, Monbiot is the new Marx. Marxist socialism may have paved the way toward an anti-capitalist and truly egalitarian society, but, as we all know, it soon ran into troubles and is not likely to be the ideology that takes us to that social goal. Monbiot is one of the few thinkers (and doers!) I know who is thinking in new and productive directions. Critiques of capitalism, though important, are now a dime a dozen. Yet positive alternative visions of the future are extremely rare. Monbiot's is one of those rare positive visions!

8:52 Historian point out the highest aspiration was public service

Anybody read the New Human Rights Movement by Peter Joseph?

Sadly, the situation in Finland is not as good as Mr.Monbiot describes in the video. At the moment our gallups in Finland say that our most popular party is a populist far right party, so we are pretty much in the same swamp as many other countries are. The good thing is that our political system is a multi-party one and their support is only about 21 percent. Still a bleak and saddening situation. And big part of the problem has to do with peoples medialiteracy skills.

AS regards CO2 accumulation.... anything beyond surfeit can be a pollutant.... we're looking at a question of balance.... excess CO2 is not taken up by plants that are not allowed to exist.... and our current Agricultural and Industrial Methods are disruptive in the EXTREME.... for Natural Nurture FROM plant growth..... around the World. At the Same time we started hyper-injecting fossilized carbon into our atmosphere.... we began proliferating Iron Plow Tillage.... agriculturally disrupting photo-synthetic carbon sequestration.... effectively Doubling the Damage....at LEAST. We MIGHT be able to turn THAT around faster than anything else we CAN do.... EXPONENTIALLY increasing Soil Carbon Retention by adopting all-around no-till organic agricultural methods.... MANY beneficial Societal effects here... MO' Bettah Food&Health/Mo' Bettah Money (at the GROUND-level.... where LongGREENMoney makes Mo' Bettah Benefits in a bubble-UP ECOnomic model) & LESS+LESS money for the Manufacturers of Agri-Toxins.... where Mo' Money makes BUT Mo' Profit$forPoi$on$ and LITTLE el$e...(..be$ide$ Profit$ for Political Power in Proliferation of Popular Pain AND Penury..)...and THERE'$ your trouble.... NOW we know why it's so hard to even TALK about making beneficial changes much less understand root Need for So doing AND....Root Cau$e for NOT. Go ahead.... Wave your magic Wand.... even WITHOUT climate crisis.... these agri-poison$ cause Air/Water/Food AND Health Pollution.... so IF you should find yourselves mentally incapable of grasping a WIDER Scope for this Impending Horror... understand clearly NOW.... that carcinogenic and other-wise Toxic agri-chemical residues are CURRENTLY doing to your body&being what the manufacturers of those chemicals are doing to all Life IN and ON Earth. It is Time to Change.... not just how we generate and use our energy (Roof-topSolarW/BatteryBack-upNOnukes) but how we grow the very food we eat....and in So doing we can.... in all likelihood.... RESOLVE our Climate AND Pollution PROBLEMS.... in REAL Time.

I agree with manny things said here but US Democrats in charge of telling us what true news is???

maybe we should take care of forest and cleanup dead bush so that if their is a fire it doesn't spread as fast

Is altruism real if the world I'm living in is mine?

Intercept censored Max Blumenthal since this was published - not a viable alternate media.

Either new communities show up...or there won't be enough caves for all of us.

About 18 minutes in, join or start a watsapp group... ...surely she meant signal?

Cult of celebrity - I disagree with performer riders that are excessive. Do you think riders, above sandwiches and a mug of tea, should be banned?

You had me until ‘the US Democrats have great ideas about sorting out fake news’ you’re joking right?

This is depressing. As far as i can see we are totally f##ked and there's nothing we can do about it. 😩

good stuff, just don't "tell it to my sixteen year old." mankind's fate is sealed. who knew?

Most people have NO idea what words like Socialism&Capitalism EVEN mean.... two ideas nearly ALWAYS couched in OPPOSITION to one another when CLEAR understanding of EACH indicates co-OPERATIVE potential for BOTH as.... MIXED Economies around the world work BEST and.... since SocietalGovernance WRIT LARGE.... cannot SUCCESSFULLY micro-manage individual businesses.... Democratic (by definition) SOCIALISM = WORKER ownership AND/or CONTROL(by Vote) of Strategic&Tactical Methodologies for Production & Distribution.... NOT State control.... which is State-ism.... NOR Capital control.... which is Capitalism.... HOWEVER....with a broad Nod & a Wink AT Whom it MAY concern.... after all these years there exists.... STILL.... as regards economic NOMENCLATURE(words with ACTUAL meaning).... REAL Need for clearer COMMUNAL comprehension of some rather FUNDAMENTAL terms of Art.... such as(for instance).... FASCISM.... which received it's name from 'Father-of-Fascism' Mussolini's Ghost writers who thought HIS word for it.... 'Corporatism'.... was too brutally mechanistic.... FASCISMO.... exists in financial function as the conjoining of Public and private monies for the purpose of FUNNEL-FEEDING and SUPER-RAMPING private profit and political power.... ALREADY under Corporate control. THIS IS.... Corporatism..... NOT exemplified very well at ALL by economically DISTRIBUTIVE companies.... such as those engaged (for instance) in energy Production from Solar&Wind which.... CURRENTLY create MORE employment payroll taxes returned to Public Coffers than ALL other forms of energy production.... COMBINED.... while using LESS Public Funding.... historically.... to get THAT.... done. So-called 'Corporate Socialism' & 'Corporate Welfare'...(..arguably Corporate COMMUNISM..).(..?!..)... are BEST exemplified by corporations engaged in the use of inherently NON-distributive technologies such as (for instance) Nuclear Power which.... having received More Public Money for LESS electricity generated ($/Kw).... WHILE creating FEWER jobs.... than ANY other form of Power generation.... AND.... concentrating More Profits into FEWER hands THROUGH(amongOtherLi'LSundries)CityState&Federal focusing of MoneyfromtheManyfortheFLIM-FlammingestFingers of the Finaglingest Few WHO.... use it to BUY.... Politicians and Regulators(inFurtherSundryService).... THIS IS (deleteriously).... CORPORATISM. Franklin Delano Roosevelt AND Mussolini....tho SWORN Enemies.... ABSOLUTELY AGREED... on ONE thing.... CORPORATISM = FASCISM.... Fiscal/Financial FASCISM..... the MoneyfromtheMany goes UP.... but it does.... NOT.... come.... back.... down.... UNTIL... it is used as inertial mass in gravitational Momentum for displacing Democratic impediments TO.... Corporate Fascism IN.... subsequent FURTHER devolution as FULL-BLOWN Totalitarian Fascism.... mounted in DEFENSE of Financial Fascism (Crypto or otherwise) AGAINST popular resistance which is ITSELF.... rooted in Ambient Poverties INTENDED.... for purposes of Profit through Control BY.... the Executors.... of CORPORATE FASCISM. Meanwhile.... ALL the way over on the OTHER hand.... COMMUNISM = COMMUNALISM.... and NOTHING.... more. ('Hath ye TWO cloaks.... and your Brother BUT none...?' Yea..)... and AS such.... serves arguably VERY well.... especially in Government Sponsored Charitable Work for purposes of raising from pernicious and persistent Poverty those who fail to Thrive in the rigors of pure Capitalism.... however.... THIS is NOT.... Socialism in ANY.... way.... shape.... OR.... form. NOR does Socialism have.... by direct economic function.... ANYTHING at ALL to DO.... WITH Communism. NEITHER the Soviets NOR the Red Chinese engaged.... through fundamental functions of Production.... EITHER Communism OR Socialism.... choosing INSTEAD.... Authoritarian State Capitalism OR.... if you prefer....Totalitarian Industrial State-ism.... (a.k.a Totalitarian Fascism MINUS Private-ism) ceding MINIMAL social supports and mere lip service.... by way of Red-Washing.... in usurpation.... the popular Revolutions they had re-purposed.... NEITHER of these two modern States... (..NOR in fact ANY others.... EVER.... ANYWHERE..)... engaged EITHER Socialism OR Communism by way of mainstay economies of Production.... misconstruing BOTH rather.... for purposes of image-embellishment AND ideational bulwarking AGAINST popular discontent....as MIRRORED.... by Capital/Fascist OPPOSITION.... till FEW of 'US' have ANY idea what Socialism&Communism ACTUALLY mean.... now just WAIT till y' find out what CAPITALISM doesn't mean.... protestations to the contrary by profligate Red-Scare-ing Propagandists notwithstanding.... Li'L knowed fUNfACToid: Capitalism IS synonymous with NEITHER Freedom.... NOR Democracy..... but (derivatively)WIF.... rather.... DaGoldenRool.... (..DemWIFGoldTAKERool..)... AAANND then.... there's FINANCIALISM.... making(in it's Fascist/FEUDAL Form) available to the RICHEST finaglingest FEWEST 'amongst' us.... every POSSIBLE function for financial instrumentation AND.... even a few that are AC-tually IM-possible.... FOR express purposes of increasing THEIR wealth at the EXPENSE OF.... everything.... ESPECIALLY Democracy : the SECOND casualty of FINANCIAL Fascism.... following preponderate TRUTH....by a Nose.... AAANND.... speaking of which.... what kind of 'economic' system DO 'we' have...? : Not-so-CryptoTotalitarian Fiscal Financialist Crypto-Feudal FASCISM.... W/ a SIDE of.... draggedBEHINDtheTruckWorkingFORtheMan resource-starved debt-ridden over-taxed under-served BADLY beset by Big'n'BiggerBox.... MaANDPa-ON-MainStreet Free?!-Enterprise AND.... (for&by)MORTALLY-Mangled 'dEmOcRaCy'.... PLUS.... rarely seen.... tho actually thriving.... ELECTIVE employee OWNED'n'Cherished RealKind CO-operative.... SOCIALISM.... and ALL.of THIS.... BUTTRESSED.... by MINIMAL.... hard-won.... demographically BELOVED and/or IGNORANTLY loathed..... COMMUNALISM.... Money FROM the Many for the Projects of the Public.... SchoolsRoadsLibrariesBRIDGES First Responders of EVERY Feather AND Stripe Mail Delivery Food Housing Medical Services AND National Defense.... for those who CANnot provide for themselves ANY or ALL.... of the above WHICH.... means EACH.... and EVERY.... one of US.... (together).... COMMUNALISM=COMMUNISM.... and nothing more.... hath ye TWELVE cloaks & your Sister NONE..!? yea.... dEsSeRt AnYoNe..? Social Security AND Medicare exist NOT by function of Socialism.... but RATHER.... in function of populist democratic TOTALITARIAN (stay w/ me) Capital Enterprise.... to wit.... by (VERY popular) democratically-elected GUN-WIELDING Government MANDATE.... employment compensation is DEFERRED (in part) till age of retirement.... Whence Socialism...? Under Socialism.... the workers would Vote such retirement benefits unto themselves.... with-IN the company....good-BYE totalitarian capitalism..... at which point.... said benefits accrue by function of CORPORATE Contract in Democratic SOCIAL Free(at last)Enterprise BUT.... minus aforementioned Mandate(guns).... Social Security SURELY sputters Sparsely'n'Sporadically.... Slowly Sinking Saggingly Southwise.... HENCE.... the NEED.... for APPROPRIATELY Regulatory.... Democratically Elected Governance.... by.... From.... and FOR.... AN effectually.... IF tortuously.... EDUCATED.... Electorate.... CAPABLE-IZED for UNDERSTANDING.... that MIXED economies work BEST...(..appropriately-REGULATED and apportioned CapitalismFinanacialismFree(AtLast)Ma'n'PaEnterpiseSOCIALISM&COMMUNISM..).... while ignorance-based FEAR.... blinded and goaded by PastRelated Red-herring Rivalry & Red-baiting.... Works WORST.... creating CONTINUING confusion for EVERY possible Future Forward.... ESPECIALLY the One in which Libertine Capitalism R.I.P.s RightsRecoveryRestitution&Regeneration away from Every'One'&Every'Thing'.... AAANND.... Speaking of WHICH.... (albeit apposedly).... one SWEET Shout-Out.... to the gradually increasing numbers of Responsibly Accountable as ECOnomically Socio-EMpathically 'n' Civically CONSIDERATE Corporations and Smaller Companies and even Individual Participants and Conscientious Consumers IN Our Economy.... WHO.... Are.... the REAL Grown-ups.... in the Mfg. Room...... for as Long as They CAN Stay.... Alive.... AS Such.... MoonMars&Stars.... BOUNDasDetermined.... FROM the Ground UP....

Taking a cheap shot at Donald Trump without examples. What should we call her?

the gender spectrum = 2. who knew?

Re 40min 05sec and your comments about Finland. You extoll performance of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin. Really? How on earth do you reconcile Marin’s position vis-à-vis Russia and her taking Finland into NATO given the fake propaganda about history of Ukraine regime change in 2024 Maidan Coup and NATO expansion since 1991 contrary to promises made by USA and Germany not to expand NATO eastward??

balance questions on the gender spectrum? how is that even relevant?

Is this for real?????

ha-ha : the demagogue is talking about how to spot up a demagogue and fake news

How very elitist to suggest people connect via WhatsApp as if everyone should own and can afford to own a Smartphone!

Oh dear, what a lot of talking without saying anything, working people don't have time for this crap, politicians are in bed with big business, Labour are worse than tories they're not working in our intrest. Vote them out!

Mass Media = By the Internet ! If only Jesus Christ of Nazareth had live today in the Age of Mass Communication ! 🤗😍🙏😇🙏✝️❤️✝️❤️✝️❤️😍🤗

who is this moderator? What a terrible bla bla, wished she could be skippen on youtube

Oh dear. George insists that we must dismantle the only system that works. He just offers vague notions of what might replace free enterprise and property ownership. Drive around any housing estate in the UK and it's possible to tell at a glance if council property or owner occupied. The latter will usually be well cared for, the state owned areas are likely to appear very unloved. We are natural capitalists, that's why it works. Simples. Until George and his fellow Guardianista's have a well researched and proven viable alternative to the present arrangements a tad less proselytising might be in order? Over population must be a contributing factor to environmental degradation but because this does not fit with leftist agendas rarely seems to be discussed.