Monbiot on Climate Change
April 11, 2007
The Fanonite
“…for the last forty years, our thought has been trapped in hollow structures of language, a stale, dead but immensely successful rhetoric. This has represented, in my view, a defeat of the intelligence and of the will.” — Harold Pinter
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April 11, 2007 at 7:39 pm
The interviewer in this vid made me grind my teeth, but Monbiot is very enlightening regards the baby steps we can all begin now to bring about the big changes that must happen…and within only 23 years! His framing the crisis of global warming as a moral issue is, I think, vital and most effective.
As you may know, US Democrats are holding our breath until the Fall and a hoped-for announcement of candidacy for president by Al Gore. After our long Dark Time, to restore at least a measure of honor in our gov’t and to have a leader knowledgeable about and committed to positive affect on our natural environment is…well, we pray for this.
April 11, 2007 at 10:42 pm
The way climate change is handled, so far, by politicians might serve as an indication to the capacity of the dominant dogmatic neo-classical capitalist system to tackle problems that are clearly not coterminous with that system.
On the other hand, Iraq war and the tragic situation in the middle east testify to to the level of integerity of politicians and the extent to which ethics are integrated into the politics of the Democratic world.