Ted Trainer Interview on 'The Simpler Way'
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- Ted Trainer is a writer and academic who advocates living simply and economic degrowth. This is the full interview we shot with him for our film "A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity". We can only ever fit in a few minutes' worth of the amazing interviews we get to shoot, so here's the whole thing for people who want to get into the nitty-gritty!
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everyone knows. They all know, the mess we're in. But denial is the most pernicious of all human reactions and the most predictable. Very, very few people will change unless forced to because of that unfortunate aspect of human nature. Everyone here is on the bleeding edge of that change. Don't expect people to follow you, they literally need to be starving before that happens. This guy is awesome, and spot on with his analysis. Best thing to do, is find a group of 100 people who want to act as a community, don't even need to be living close by, but who support each other the way he describes, with skills, and labour, and community and knowledge, and economically. That's what my thinking is right now.
If you don`t do that soon it could be to late but there is a need for sun, soil and water and skills and that is rare.
What to say about Ted Trainer and his impact on my life. I read his book back in the mid 90s, The Conserver Society and my life changed. Everything in life is seen through a different lens now. I wish that he could could know of his impact across the world. So from NE Ohio, thank you Ted Trainer
Ted Trainer's book, The Conserver Society, totally changed my life. I read it decades ago now and who I have become is because of that experience.
hello Ted, I was terry cliffs assistant in the middle 1960, s in the YMCA> You helped me with advancing my gymnastics. I have to thank you for doing that. I lived at Bardwell pk at the time. I was best at vaulting and tumbling at the time. I now live in Wyong and have 2 granddaughters. I am 78 and healthy. and can still do a cartwheel' I live a few streets away from another friend who used to go to the Y at the same time. As you probably know Benny Deroo and Bruce Sharp have died. I would have loved to see your property but unfortunately my wife is disabled and have to look after her. All the best wishes Bob Goyette
I live the simpler way and try and share the ways I overcome the complexity of the consumerist way. . The small number of comments on interview shows just how far we need to go as a society.
Ted's ideas are powerful in their simplicity. Our real challenge is a cultural change, not necessarily a technological change.
Brilliant and I can't wait until this philosophy is more mainstream. The world is waking up
Alguien podría ayudar a poner subtítulos en español. Resulta fundamental traducirlo para que lo lea mucha gente en el mundo. Gracias desde América Latina
Ask the Amish , they live a much simpler life. When people don’t have enough electricity to charge their devices things will really fall apart. Let’s embrace it and get creative, Thank you Mother Nature , we’ve been so wasteful, it’s time to get back to cottage industry.
Automatic english subtitles please.
Ted, there's no doubt that a simple life is the way to go. The main problem is how to achieve that on a world scale quickly so as to avoid catastrophic global warming. This you completely ignore, and I find it puzzling. Global warming must be halted as soon as possible as it can be self-generating if it gets beyond nature ability to control. We don't know how much carbon we can emit before it has a power to overcome nature's controls .
+Lionel Anet, the point Ted makes is that the only way to defuse the climate bomb is to move towards simpler way settlements, lifestyles, values etc. There is no other way! What about renewables? As he outlines in this interview, they are unlikely to be able to affordably run consumer society and/or be scaled up in time. Even if they could, you would only then be running into other huge problems. Alternatively, we could make vast cuts to emissions etc, within decades, if we moved to the simpler way, as well as defusing other global problems.
I don't think Ted is ignoring climate change he just didn't mention it specifically as much of his focus in the video was on the reshaping of society but I'm sure he has given it much thought. Adaptation to whatever is coming down the tube is essential and I'm sure we can include extreme climate change
He takes climate change for granted I think.
I agree that climate change is a huge and very unpredictable problem. I have wondered what will get us first Peak Oil or climate change. After looking at it, Peak Oil is right on our doorstep. I think we have about three years before things get tough and by 2030, if we don't simplify our ways, we will be in deep trouble. Climate change will take care of itself if we don't burn up all the coal and biomass.
@@evanhadkins5532 i think that what he is intending to portray is that degrowth should start with the individual, and we should change our way of thinking and behaving, and not request additional and useless commodities. This will indirectly reduce the impact on the climate.
when the pilgrims tried the commune method they came very close to starvation. When they split up the communal land into equal plots the amount of food produced increased dramatically
Interesting. Can you give reference about those facts, so that we can check ?
@@mathieufarges6551 Try the Journal of Governor William Bradford - reproduced for publication as "History of Plimoth Plantation" ISBN number 978-1-4290-22850-9 The spelling of Plymouth is not a typo. The original is still kept at the Massachusetts State library.
the pilgrims only survived because their asses were saved by Indigenous people who were living communally on the land before they arrived