Dad taught me all this, and I saw it on the wildlife research station I was raised on in North Dakota. The Great Plains are a monoculture of a few crops where once was a great grassland with many species of animals that are now extinct.
Loved this! We still have one or two left in the UK for us to be proud of. George Monbiot is the the best of us. Sorry that we also gave you Boris, Truss, Farage, the Monarchy, and cricket! Imagine, Secretary for the Environment, Mr Monbiot. What a different world. Secretary for Science, Richard Dawkins; Secretary for the Natural World, David Attenborough; Secretary for Innovation, Brian Cox. They could visit the USA, and meet President degrasse Tyson at the Carl Sagan White House. Instead, look what a shower of incompetents we have to put up with.
My new neighbors are from Mexico. They have a gorgeous rooster and 3 hens that walk around pecking at the ground around my house. They take afternoon naps next to the house foundation. Recently the hens produced chicks that delight me. One neighbor complained that the animals were sitting on his front porch. I can't imagine the motivation but now the animals are in a hut my neighbor built and I miss them.
you do realize the elites have different answers to all these issues, all centered around eliminating 90% of humanity. We should have never gone down this path or needed these solutions about 50 years ago.
I find it difficult to accept how enormously self-serving, egoistical and insensitive most earthlings are! All that is needed to step up our responsibility, needs to be pleaded for but, when it comes to animals, it is obnoxious the insensitive way in which people refuse to accept the rights of animals! Animal Liberation is a must to bring about decency, ethics, respect, compassion and peace! For centuries, respected scientists, intellectuals have warned about the crime of overlooking the rights to life of all sentient beings! Richard Feinman did say that no humans could reach the depths of knowledge of Nature! Here it is to complement the wonder of compatibility between us all. Eating cadavers is obscene. Stand for life!
Margaret Roberts was a very experienced organic farmer. Her farm in South Africa is absolutely stunning. She wrote many books about gardens, food, planting. She was Internationally known. She gave classes weekly and I was privileged to attend regularly. Unfortunately she passed away a few years ago. Her daughter took over. Margaret was very proud of her book Companion Planting which gives an enormous amount of tips on how to plant side by side plants which protected one another! Revolutionary and definitely something which could be followed. Every time she started the class she would say ‘now this is definitely my favorite plant’. She loved them all!
Moedig om in dit door Rabobank gesponsorde programma zo'n radicaal geluid te laten horen, en in die avond als Rabobank ook reactie te geven. Zouden dat toch eerste signalen zijn van hoognodige en radicale veranderingen? In ieder geval is de stem van George Monbiot een belangrijke en krachtige!
Mr. George Monbiot I’m so happy to have someone like you trying to upgrade us to move on to a sustainable evolutionary option for a planet which has been desecrated by us! Thank you, thank you. Easy to make enemies when we talk for animals but a fantastic journey to sanity and love!
Theres one more thing. We need to put into question who owns the land? who owns the companies, the capital, the technologies. As we live in capitalism capital is held as private property by a minority of individuals who have the last say of what to do with it and also the last say in government because they control government so far that they have prevented any meaningful environmental policies since the dawn of climate science. Our political and economic system are two sides of the same thing which is capitalism and it is failing us. If we want to have a say in how our planets resources and ecosystems are being handled, if we want to invest in these new technologies, if we want to re-wild large swaths of land, we have to say enough is enough. Your power (banks and corporations) is not legitimate, it is archaic, it is authoritarian, it has to end. Your rule is over, we will seize the means of production (land, technologies, factories, capital, ...), you can watch, you won't get any more rights over what we do with our time and resources than anyone else. Let the scientists speak, let the people speak, lets make space for the collective interest (food for all and a healthy ecosystem) and get rid of the influence of rich minority interests (capital gains, don't care what happens to the planet as long as i can make a profit off it happening and can escape to my private bunker when sh** hits the fan). peace :)
What an amazing talk, the concepts discussed are a very desirable way forward. Here is a concept I would like you to see. It would be an enormous move forward if we as a movement could promote a charity that bought land and preserved it with a clause that it was wild land and no one is allowed to extract any resources from this land and it would be left to be wild. The charity would be able to get money from donations, grants, subsidies and even companies paying for offsetting industrial carbon emissions. The Charity would have a voluntary foundation and would not be owned by anyone. As it gets bigger it would and could have educational revenue, safari revenue and even holiday revenue that would be ploughed back in to the primary goal of purchasing more land and more rewilding projects. As an inspired follower of your work George, I believe all the concepts you talk about are causes well worth pursuing. However I am not convinced about the carbon issue, there is a growing argument that the level of carbon in the world of 400 parts per million is low and not high enough ( Professor William Happer). To change the world with more trees and environments which are beneficial to rewilding, these plants are going to need more carbon to be able to breath. We need to look at true science, the rhetoric driving these beliefs have no real scientific credit, may be it would be prudent to see who is benefitting financially from the climate change hysteria.
This speach forcasts even larger human populations. Is a large human population good or bad? As you've based your speach you must identify if your process is good or bad and stop doing bad before you start the good, for best result, simply put. So is the unrestricted human population growth good or bad?
Is it not true that the top 5% are responsible for 50% of the carbon budget? If so, if we all change our habits except the wealthy, we will still have 50% of the carbon budget to deal with. Then there is the military, and NATO is the largest single polluter (specifically the U.S)
According to "Climate Equality: A planet for the 99%" by Oxfam and Stockholm Environment Institute (Nov 2023), the wealthiest 10% were responsible for 50% of global emissions, while the bottom 50% were responsible for just 8%. For example, flying in airplanes, driving private vehicles, suburban sprawl and owning multiple homes in suburban sprawl are activities of the wealthy which need to be restricted. The overconsumption of the wealthy and the carbon footprint of the military are hard political problems to solve.
SO MUCH FOOD CONSUMPTION WHILE A GREAT PART OF THE WORLD GOES HUNGRY. WHY DOES "DEVELOPMENT" OF COUNTRIES MEAN WASTE AND EXCESSES. EATING AND CONSUMING TOO MUCH, ACCUMULATING TOO MUCH, USING AND DISPOSING MORE THAN NECASSARY.?
I'm angry that my cat shares a color code with the one they are using as a prop. Poor guy doesn't know how goofy the dude to his right is, I just hope they don't try to feed him Evolution Diet cat food; he's a fellow carnivore!
We are not capable of making the same proteins as animals do, because it is never proteins on their own. We need the micronutrients, the trace elements and the vitamins that come with the natural way of producing meat, eggs, milk etc. You should realize that organic food contains a lot more essential (micro)nutrients than we can imagine.
As a matter of degree look at the blue zone populations that eat very little meat and are the healthiest and longest living populations. They get what they need and omit a lot of what is harmful to heavier meat consuming populations. Your thinking is based on an old model.
I don’t understand the need to make food that tastes like cadavers. Once our palate is served delicious vegan food, the original is disgusting. The taste, the smell is awful.
Incredibly biased host. George, tell us how your nihilistic pessimism is just a pipe dream: Patrick, inspire us with your utopian dream of the farm in the hill. So biased. Great job George. I doubt that the world has the intelligence to listen and our demise will be the consequence. Thankfully you have more mental fortitude to stay the course. I hope you win, otherwise we all lose.
Meanwhile in the next couple weeks ten wolves are to be moved a thousand kilometers from Oregon to be released in Colorado. Footnote: Law requiring reintroduction was by voters’ initiative, meaning by citizens’ direct vote.
Get Alan Savory on to tell us about how cow shit will save the world and bring back the tropical rainforests because lots of cattle and sheep and pigs live in them forests.That's how come they're so foresty, hahaha.
It is not farming that is doing all this damage. It is the government telling people how to farm that destroyed everything if people were allowed to farm responsibly, you wouldn’t have these things to blame on farming we don’t need pesticides in farming we do not need plowing in farming we do not need all these things that you’re talking about, in fact, farming does better when it’s done in a natural, harmonious manner. So it’s not the farming it’s the governments to tell you how to farm that destroys things that I’ve done this.
The stomachs of cattle and sheep are methane factories. I eat ruminants, but we need to be honest about their environmental impacts and limit our consumption. 32% of global anthropogenic methane comes from ruminants and manure. A cow belches about 220 pounds of methane per day.
Let's be Frank Soylent Green is made from human material Mr Monbiot is endorsing a vegan diet or adopting these microbial/fermented meats (if they are developed for future food security) - very different sir!!
My grandparents lived to 95 and 94 respectively, always had a wood stove and a grand old fire burning in their living room every day in the winter! I say that as my uncles and aunties are dead and had microwaves instead! So many fact checks needed in this whole video, I counted at least 5! Where is George Monbiot's ban from TH-cam eh?
He has science behind him (facts not anecdotes) and that is all he needs not like the 99.....% who love to create their own fairytales on what might as well be the virtual world that some of these morally bankrupt TH-camrs exist in. 'Too much shit' as Monbiot says...
"This guy would basically ban all animals, if he could..." NO, the problem is our livestock, which now outweigh all the wild mammals on land by a ratio of 15-to-1. If you love wildlife and natural ecosystems, we need to reduce the number of livestock to make room for them.
Dad taught me all this, and I saw it on the wildlife research station I was raised on in North Dakota. The Great Plains are a monoculture of a few crops where once was a great grassland with many species of animals that are now extinct.
Loved this! We still have one or two left in the UK for us to be proud of. George Monbiot is the the best of us. Sorry that we also gave you Boris, Truss, Farage, the Monarchy, and cricket! Imagine, Secretary for the Environment, Mr Monbiot. What a different world. Secretary for Science, Richard Dawkins; Secretary for the Natural World, David Attenborough; Secretary for Innovation, Brian Cox. They could visit the USA, and meet President degrasse Tyson at the Carl Sagan White House. Instead, look what a shower of incompetents we have to put up with.
My new neighbors are from Mexico. They have a gorgeous rooster and 3 hens that walk around pecking at the ground around my house. They take afternoon naps next to the house foundation. Recently the hens produced chicks that delight me. One neighbor complained that the animals were sitting on his front porch. I can't imagine the motivation but now the animals are in a hut my neighbor built and I miss them.
We are literally holding onto a fantasy that has turned into a nightmare because we refuse to live in reality. Destroying everything in the process😭
you do realize the elites have different answers to all these issues, all centered around eliminating 90% of humanity. We should have never gone down this path or needed these solutions about 50 years ago.
24:00 “ designed to keep us talking without then agreeing im solutions “
Wat een goed verhaal en sympathieke spreker. Jammer dat er nog niet zoveel views zijn.
Great talk!
What a guy - inspirational.
I find it difficult to accept how enormously self-serving, egoistical and insensitive most earthlings are! All that is needed to step up our responsibility, needs to be pleaded for but, when it comes to animals, it is obnoxious the insensitive way in which people refuse to accept the rights of animals! Animal Liberation is a must to bring about decency, ethics, respect, compassion and peace! For centuries, respected scientists, intellectuals have warned about the crime of overlooking the rights to life of all sentient beings! Richard Feinman did say that no humans could reach the depths of knowledge of Nature! Here it is to complement the wonder of compatibility between us all. Eating cadavers is obscene. Stand for life!
Margaret Roberts was a very experienced organic farmer. Her farm in South Africa is absolutely stunning. She wrote many books about gardens, food, planting. She was Internationally known. She gave classes weekly and I was privileged to attend regularly. Unfortunately she passed away a few years ago. Her daughter took over. Margaret was very proud of her book Companion Planting which gives an enormous amount of tips on how to plant side by side plants which protected one another! Revolutionary and definitely something which could be followed. Every time she started the class she would say ‘now this is definitely my favorite plant’. She loved them all!
We leave a huge bloody tale on this planet,it's time to change,time to use these technologies!👍
Moedig om in dit door Rabobank gesponsorde programma zo'n radicaal geluid te laten horen, en in die avond als Rabobank ook reactie te geven. Zouden dat toch eerste signalen zijn van hoognodige en radicale veranderingen? In ieder geval is de stem van George Monbiot een belangrijke en krachtige!
Zou mooi zijn als Rabo de eerste fermentatie-steak-fabriek financiert
Mr. George Monbiot I’m so happy to have someone like you trying to upgrade us to move on to a sustainable evolutionary option for a planet which has been desecrated by us! Thank you, thank you. Easy to make enemies when we talk for animals but a fantastic journey to sanity and love!
Two stars on stage, Harris and George!😸
💚🐾✊🏼💚🎯🙏
Theres one more thing. We need to put into question who owns the land? who owns the companies, the capital, the technologies. As we live in capitalism capital is held as private property by a minority of individuals who have the last say of what to do with it and also the last say in government because they control government so far that they have prevented any meaningful environmental policies since the dawn of climate science. Our political and economic system are two sides of the same thing which is capitalism and it is failing us. If we want to have a say in how our planets resources and ecosystems are being handled, if we want to invest in these new technologies, if we want to re-wild large swaths of land, we have to say enough is enough. Your power (banks and corporations) is not legitimate, it is archaic, it is authoritarian, it has to end. Your rule is over, we will seize the means of production (land, technologies, factories, capital, ...), you can watch, you won't get any more rights over what we do with our time and resources than anyone else. Let the scientists speak, let the people speak, lets make space for the collective interest (food for all and a healthy ecosystem) and get rid of the influence of rich minority interests (capital gains, don't care what happens to the planet as long as i can make a profit off it happening and can escape to my private bunker when sh** hits the fan). peace :)
Excellent
we must stop meating like this...
40:45 the solution - new forms of fermentation
52:30: technoethical shift
Is tourism sustainable to Mediterranean countries.
I haven't listened to all of this yet, but we are growing tree lanes in out sheep pasture by means of fencing.
Necesitamos asumir que se tienen que hacer ciertos sacrificios, llevo más de 10 años sin comer carne y ha sido la mejor decisión
Sounds reasonable
What an amazing talk, the concepts discussed are a very desirable way forward. Here is a concept I would like you to see.
It would be an enormous move forward if we as a movement could promote a charity that bought land and preserved it with a clause that it was wild land and no one is allowed to extract any resources from this land and it would be left to be wild. The charity would be able to get money from donations, grants, subsidies and even companies paying for offsetting industrial carbon emissions. The Charity would have a voluntary foundation and would not be owned by anyone. As it gets bigger it would and could have educational revenue, safari revenue and even holiday revenue that would be ploughed back in to the primary goal of purchasing more land and more rewilding projects.
As an inspired follower of your work George, I believe all the concepts you talk about are causes well worth pursuing. However I am not convinced about the carbon issue, there is a growing argument that the level of carbon in the world of 400 parts per million is low and not high enough ( Professor William Happer). To change the world with more trees and environments which are beneficial to rewilding, these plants are going to need more carbon to be able to breath. We need to look at true science, the rhetoric driving these beliefs have no real scientific credit, may be it would be prudent to see who is benefitting financially from the climate change hysteria.
Climate change is not hysteria. It's real.
Brilliant presentation! So happy he’s one of ours! Thank you
This speach forcasts even larger human populations. Is a large human population good or bad? As you've based your speach you must identify if your process is good or bad and stop doing bad before you start the good, for best result, simply put. So is the unrestricted human population growth good or bad?
I criticise all attacks… “yes or no, do you condemn these attacks” 🤷♂️
you literally can’t win with these people.
So much truth, 42 comments……
Will the kitty cat on stage eat Slorp(TM) too?
Is it not true that the top 5% are responsible for 50% of the carbon budget? If so, if we all change our habits except the wealthy, we will still have 50% of the carbon budget to deal with. Then there is the military, and NATO is the largest single polluter (specifically the U.S)
They are all starting to buy electric vehicles, a move in the right direction.
According to "Climate Equality: A planet for the 99%" by Oxfam and Stockholm Environment Institute (Nov 2023), the wealthiest 10% were responsible for 50% of global emissions, while the bottom 50% were responsible for just 8%. For example, flying in airplanes, driving private vehicles, suburban sprawl and owning multiple homes in suburban sprawl are activities of the wealthy which need to be restricted. The overconsumption of the wealthy and the carbon footprint of the military are hard political problems to solve.
SO MUCH FOOD CONSUMPTION WHILE A GREAT PART OF THE WORLD GOES HUNGRY. WHY DOES "DEVELOPMENT" OF COUNTRIES MEAN WASTE AND EXCESSES. EATING AND CONSUMING TOO MUCH, ACCUMULATING TOO MUCH, USING AND DISPOSING MORE THAN NECASSARY.?
I'm angry that my cat shares a color code with the one they are using as a prop. Poor guy doesn't know how goofy the dude to his right is, I just hope they don't try to feed him Evolution Diet cat food; he's a fellow carnivore!
We are not capable of making the same proteins as animals do, because it is never proteins on their own. We need the micronutrients, the trace elements and the vitamins that come with the natural way of producing meat, eggs, milk etc. You should realize that organic food contains a lot more essential (micro)nutrients than we can imagine.
As a matter of degree look at the blue zone populations that eat very little meat and are the healthiest and longest living populations. They get what they need and omit a lot of what is harmful to heavier meat consuming populations. Your thinking is based on an old model.
Maybe if it was true that the blue zones ate little meat? This has been shown to be false.
I don’t understand the need to make food that tastes like cadavers. Once our palate is served delicious vegan food, the original is disgusting. The taste, the smell is awful.
Incredibly biased host. George, tell us how your nihilistic pessimism is just a pipe dream: Patrick, inspire us with your utopian dream of the farm in the hill. So biased. Great job George. I doubt that the world has the intelligence to listen and our demise will be the consequence. Thankfully you have more mental fortitude to stay the course. I hope you win, otherwise we all lose.
Meanwhile in the next couple weeks ten wolves are to be moved a thousand kilometers from Oregon to be released in Colorado.
Footnote: Law requiring reintroduction was by voters’ initiative, meaning by citizens’ direct vote.
Get Alan Savory on to tell us about how cow shit will save the world and bring back the tropical rainforests because lots of cattle and sheep and pigs live in them forests.That's how come they're so foresty, hahaha.
When do I get rid of my two dogs so the rich can be the only ones to eat organic food. There is no emergency.
Ban Megafarms.
It is not farming that is doing all this damage. It is the government telling people how to farm that destroyed everything if people were allowed to farm responsibly, you wouldn’t have these things to blame on farming we don’t need pesticides in farming we do not need plowing in farming we do not need all these things that you’re talking about, in fact, farming does better when it’s done in a natural, harmonious manner. So it’s not the farming it’s the governments to tell you how to farm that destroys things that I’ve done this.
We don’t have a right to kill sentient beings! Get off the bus!
Oh please. Great amounts of methane? I'm done with this.
The stomachs of cattle and sheep are methane factories. I eat ruminants, but we need to be honest about their environmental impacts and limit our consumption. 32% of global anthropogenic methane comes from ruminants and manure. A cow belches about 220 pounds of methane per day.
Let's just be frank. George Monbiot wants to make Soylent Green a reality.
Let's be Frank Soylent Green is made from human material Mr Monbiot is endorsing a vegan diet or adopting these microbial/fermented meats (if they are developed for future food security) - very different sir!!
My grandparents lived to 95 and 94 respectively, always had a wood stove and a grand old fire burning in their living room every day in the winter! I say that as my uncles and aunties are dead and had microwaves instead! So many fact checks needed in this whole video, I counted at least 5! Where is George Monbiot's ban from TH-cam eh?
He has science behind him (facts not anecdotes) and that is all he needs not like the 99.....% who love to create their own fairytales on what might as well be the virtual world that some of these morally bankrupt TH-camrs exist in. 'Too much shit' as Monbiot says...
"The plural of anecdote is not data."
@@alkhemiegypt Data in the social sciences is nothing but anecdotes amalgamated!
@@gregmoore167 That's not really true though is it? 🤨
@@alkhemiegypt Nothing is true!
This guy would basically ban all animals, if he could...
"This guy would basically ban all animals, if he could..." NO, the problem is our livestock, which now outweigh all the wild mammals on land by a ratio of 15-to-1. If you love wildlife and natural ecosystems, we need to reduce the number of livestock to make room for them.