George Monbiot | 55 Tufton Street | Writers Rebel | Extinction Rebellion UK
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- Climate veteran George Monbiot calls out the Tufton think tanks for their tactics of denial and confusion over the climate science standing in front of their 'heart of darkness'.
This was part of a series of readings from the UK top writers and thinkers at the Writers Rebel event right in front of 55 Tufton Street on 3rd September 2020 during the XR rebellion.
There followed an act of non violent direct action to leave a mark on the building itself. This was done by WR organiser Jessica Townsend, philosopher Rupert Read, XR cofounder Clare Farrell and XR activist Anna Hyde. Rupert and Jessica were arrested.
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He's so good. We need people like him in power.
If the human race survives this period, George Monbiot will be remembered as one of the heroes of that campaign.
Thank you all. Good people.
Brilliant George!
we are not going away
XR ✊💚🌍
Thank you George.
For what presisely? pulling the wool over the eyes of a bunch of ignorants!
That was a powerful message .
XR should do more of this
@@Andre-hm5vo this event was organised by XR's Money Rebellion. £R is a new form of collective civil disobedience. Check out www.moneyrebellion.earth
St George truth teller for our current disaster
Brilliant speech George.
We need these words - not just for the environment. In a week where we lost David Graeber, this cheered me up. Thanks George from one of the 99%.
excellent passionate, rousing speech. Thanks George M!
Thank you for taking the time to mobilize around these matters, you’re all fantastic 🤘
A brilliant writer, he’s clued on and doesn’t leave the reader in any doubt as to what/who he refers to as the problems in society. Far too many in the British press are gutless and deceitful.
Naveed Munir who the hell is he?
@@kaywaters4427 Research? What the hell is that?
Well including George. Who(back in 2013). Was sued for libel. By spreading false sexual abuse allegations. About Alastair McAlpine. Who btw was terminally at the time. Monbiot is just the Alex Jones of the Hard Left. 🙄
@@zeezee3513 Monbiot's Dad was a Tory Councillor btw. Who sent him to Stowe. A very prestigious Private school. Do you think this whole act. Is just a way at "pissing daddy off".
I suspect many in the British press are owned by the same people who own Johnson & Cummings.
well said george
So good Thankyou George
superb filmmaking! - the cause deserves no less. well done. thank you.
Thanks Guy. XR is all unpaid volunteers now so it's just the importance of the cause that makes these things happen.
Unmasking the power. It’s a start.
@@Andre-hm5vo I hope your views are at least left-leaning neutral. It's just that the right-wing trolls are on the prowl and will use replies to ambiguous commentary on their own websites
Amazing job guy well done.
Stuart Scott of Scientists Warning has been saying similar things as well. He also is well worth listening to!
George undoubtedly has rhetoric talent. And he is using it for a just cause. Would have been better if we had acknowledged this 20 years earlier.
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We did. It's just that corporate disinformation campaigns have been spending all those public subsidies for petrol/gas on misinforming the public of the safety of their products.
Mohammad Rahman I‘m all with you 🙏
"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." 1Tim 6:10
Unusual choice of microphone, I like what he said though 😎
Brilliant
fantastic speech.
Let's expose the links to 55-57 Tufton St's old money interests. I came across an article critical of Extinction Rebellion this morning (capx.co/weekly-briefing-the-three-ds-of-extinction-rebellion/). I found it weak as most of points were made in defence of economic growth for growth's sake, although it did link me to Attenborough's interesting article and Apocalypse Never. I was interested in what CapX is and who funds it. I found that advocates "markets, innovation, competition, and policies that deliver for the masses as well as the elites" and it's based at 57 Tufton St.
yes!!!
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No.
You guys protest in totally the wrong way.🕶
@@frankblack7801 how should we protest then? Which way should we go? More intense or less? You saw a hundred people sitting in a street listening to the truth.
Should they shuffle off and stand on a street corner or should they start rampaging and smashing windows? Or should they take peaceful direct action?
In order to engage the powers, a larger movement of people is required. A far larger movement.
I sense that this will be coming, in the not too distant future.
Will I get engaged? Or will I just ... post shit like this? I don't know.
I'm fearful, but not fearful enough that I won't post my concerns under my own name - at least that is something.
The reality to me is that many of my friends and acquaintances, should they ever read what I post, would consider me a little bit crazy.
Such is the grip that the 'market' has over us. There's so many distractions - but those distractions are starting to fail.
For now, they still exist and it ... infuriates me sometimes.
"Yes, we understand that all, Matt, but it's such a downer - and hey, the new XYZ movie is out, have you seen the cool swag. Hey Matt, just cool it - we know - Hey, anyone checked out the new XYZ video game? Awesome. Yeah, haha, love your Unicorn stickers on your bag."
I don't for a minute believe there's an all powerful cohesive force dictating all of our lives - it is far more chaotic than that.
Rather, there are numerous steering forces - as George says - forces of money - who are able to shift our chaotic world to favour them.
There is no grand order in this, there is no great movement, other than power and money and a series of ... I guess, 'great houses' - just as there was centuries ago. That power and money fights with other power and money - there is no real cohesion, but they drag us all with them.
I believe it is short term strategy in the vast majority of cases - opportunity.
There is, absolutely, powers at play who DO have a greater overall plan - possibly Putin is leading a destruction of the USA from within. Yep, there's a conspiracy theory for you.
That the ultimate power over all the Russian Oligarchs, has a stooge in the White House, none other than POTUS.
Is this any great surprise? Only if you've never read any history. Those big old history books aren't fantasy. They allow us to see, in many ways, just how little has changed.
There's this thin veneer of civilisation and technology which really exists at the peril of our very planet, wealth of the kind nobody really needs, has spread to millions - which is unsupportable.
Spirituality has gone in so many ways, replaced by ... what? The desire to own? - trinkets? Things that don't actually make you happy?
The thing is, all too often, people think this is all new - it's not. The problem is, this time, it's perilous - it's reached the point where it's going to topple the entirety of civilisation and take our a huge chunk of the natural world with it. It's already being taken out - the losses are staggering. Horrifying. Almost to the point of no return. Almost a foregone conclusion. The end is indeed, nigh.
What is happening now, is that all of these 'power games', are complicit in the destruction of our home. That's the real kicker. That's the insane bit. For the love of power and money, people would foul the very nest that *GIVES* them the power and money. Again, we return to short term thinking.
There really is only one way to stop it and that is not to participate, on a scale so massive, it would be almost impossible to imagine.
But imagine, if collectively, we all formed our own way of living - and stopped consuming along with the accepted norms, the status-quo.
What if we will-fully lowered our consumption - and found other means to live our lives - and thus stop buying into this power play charade?
What then?
Well, we've seen where that leads - organisations like XR, being criminalised.
So, we come back to a larger movement being required.
That is coming, there is no doubt about it - you can push people so far, but when they start to lose the foundation of their lives, they get angry.
When you ain't go nothing, you've got nothing to lose.
The question is, will it be too late?
Who knows, but it's coming anyway - something is going to give. Massively.
Remarkabke speech, right now, we could choke ourselves to death breathing in car fumes & watch as the Earth bursts into flames or take action & start doing things about global warming, we have to move on this.
What a speech
George you should go and stand outside the places that employ people NOT to report anything like this.
"Money doesn´t talk, it swears"
"Hayek said don't go into politics, set up a infrastructure of persuasion that will then bear upon politics, that will then bear upon public imagination and change the way the world world works and that's exactly what they did in setting up the Institute of Economic Affairs"
The petrochemical companies and their ilk (tobacco, mining etc) have forced their fingers into everyone's pies. Even when western governments have committee investigations into the ethics of corporate monopolies the big-oil agents are always there trying to manipulate government policy with fearmongering and deception of how important they are to society. It's the master-blaster method. Hold the world to ransom just to get what they want no matter the cost to all else. It's sickening greed.
"55 Tufton Street is a Georgian era townhouse owned by businessman Richard Smith"
A fair description of the building but it's what happens inside that everyone should be concerned about - the home of master manipulators.
If ever there was a reason to think Truss was right this is it .
Partial potential hero. The other part of him is an agent of the most insidious monstrous anti meat anti farming ideologies.
Vi appoggio con tutta me stessa!! Sono di XR Italia e mi piacerebbe venire a Londra a fare un gemellaggio. Posso venire?
The underlying assumption is always the same: the majority of people are good, and all the badness in the world is generated by a few evil individuals at the top of formal hierarchies. The problem with this theory is that people are not good.
And that‘s why public control is needed. Today control is too asymmetrical. We need much more control of the wealthy and their access to power. We need more democratic control of the wealthy. To start with we need a comprehensive lobby register that creates transparency. George is on the right track. 🍀
"The extinction of humanity is rightly deserved"
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That's defeatist. And plus we are talking about the bad people with wealth and power, not my bigoted street neighbour. They won't change their mind on global toxicity until those they listen to are ousted. And the only way to do that is with people power but people power won't happen if the likes of you keep trying to stop us with despairing and melancholic thoughts.
The problem with your assumption of the underlying assumption that people are good or bad - we're all a complicated mix of positive and negative on a sliding scale that, in part, reflects our current environment. It's much easier to be good during good times and be bad when you're part of a mob. And there is a survival benefit to being able to do bad when times get dark - it's wired into part of our neural circuitry. I'll grant that there are the extreme examples of people who due to nature or nurture are broken and dangerous but there are also those who are inherently decent, kind, and giving.
The formal hierarchies managed and directed by a ruling class do exist and always have in one form or another. But like the countries they run their power grows and fades and evolves over the centuries, taking on new names and titles and members from time to time, especially when one country's ruling class is purged by another country or by an internal power struggle and a new hierarchy is established and/or builds back over several generations. It's not so much that there are a few individuals among the upper-most upper class that are running the world in an evil moo-ha-ha, Moloch worshiping kind of way but more a few families directing managers and assistants in a self-interested regardless of the expense to others kind of way that is evil in it's indifference to the damage they do.
The Koch Brothers & Mercer with other such billionaires & millionaires fund these places.
i had no idea this was what a think tank was.
You aren't alone. The media has a lot to blame for that. And the think tanks have done a great PR job...
Minor detail: great high quality video with two cameras but audio is, er, a bit rough!
fair point. there's were loads of speakers and it turned out to be difficult to swap lapel mics in a covid sensible.
@@willwalthamforest8706 you have to take the audio from the line out of the PA. Hopefully only one of them.
George nailed it!
He has nailed you, thats for sure.
Who’s extinction are you rebelling against ?
What about Assange Geo?
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And the people that never fitted in, still don’t want to fit in and still want to be their own community on the outside of society... this isn’t for the people, it’s for them.
Hayes what a incredibly stupid thing to say we care about the future for our children and even pricks like you so wake up and smell the coffee fool
john Corrigan yeah sounds like you really care... I think I’ll pass on your help thank you, even though you make a great case 👍🏻
Its about time you've targeted the right organisation, the right people, NOT the people of Britain! You will gain if you leave the people of Britain to their way of life. (Leaving them get to work/walk the streets/not make a nuisance of society). And target THE right place. Now, you're starting to make sense. Silently but powerful will HELP you. Loud and distractful DOES piss people off and won't even acknowledge what you're standing for.
Silently and powerful is exactly what he criticises. XR never meant to offend ordinary people who are striving for a decent living. But social science tells us that civil disobedience which also causes obstruction of smoothly running systems is the most effective way of targeting „the right people“.
If I'm right im saying protesting like that seems fair, but protesting at railway stations and stopping people travelling/walking/driving, train/Road. Just pisses people off who just won't give a shit about the argument. But like that protest seems "silent" out of people daily lifestyles way. Possibility of getting people to understand cos they haven't pissed anyone off, other than the people they intend to piss off.
kyle griffiths Greenpeace follows a policy that you favour. They are getting publicity but could not prevent things getting worse and worse. So there‘s no choice than to try something new and different.
A bit more constructive than the plastic bag dance the other day.
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It takes all types.... we are humanity in all it's forms
20years trying to draw attention to himself more likely
George Monbiot, I just want to say that I personally don't like any radical group, whether they are right or left-leaning, as they generally only think of themselves. However, as I watched a video of a protest, I noticed that all the people who had come out to support it were wearing masks. This seemed to me like some sort of radicalism, so I don't think you are any better as you support this! Why are they all hiding behind masks? It reminds me of some groups who wear hoods, and that is shameful.
They're just as bad as climate denying think tanks because they wear masks??
What a bender!
05:44 Well, You *did* get sued. For libelling Alistair McAlpine. Who btw was terminally ill at the time,George🤨😏. You're just the Kelvin McKenzie of the hard left. 🙄
Could he have imagined what would play out over the following 2 years. 🥹
Thank you George!