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The new political story that could change everything | George Monbiot

TED Talks Daily - September 07, 2020 10:00 ★★★★ - 9.8K ratings
To get out of the mess we're in, we need a new story that explains the present and guides the future, says author George Monbiot. Drawing on findings from psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology, he offers a new vision for society built around our fundamental capacity for altru...

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BONUS: George Monbiot - Unedited Conversation

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - November 29, 2019 08:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
George Monbiot joined us on our ‘How neoliberalism happened’ episode last month. Enjoy our full, unedited conversation with him! George Monbiot writes a weekly column for The Guardian and is the author of a number of books, most recently ‘Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis’...

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George Monbiot's Confessions — Boarding school, the BBC and Extinction Rebellion

Confessions with Giles Fraser - UnHerd - November 25, 2019 05:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
Giles chats to environmental activist and "professional troublemaker" George Monbiot about the horrors of boarding school, why he's a eurosceptic Remainer and how he escaped a near-death experience in Indonesia.

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George Monbiot & Extinction Rebellion

Douglas Carswell - October 12, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
George shares his view on everything from Brexit to Extinction Rebellion. He responds to the suggestion that the modern environmental movement is a cult-like movement, that gives meaning and purpose to people who previously might have joined their local church. 

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XR London from Simon Moore — Day One | George Monbiot, KT Tunstall and more

Climactic - October 08, 2019 19:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Climactic member Simon Moore sends in a dispatch from the streets of London highlighting the first day of the International Rebellion there. The cat and mouse game with police, a rousing speech from journalist George Monbiot, and beautiful choiral singing.

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How neoliberalism happened (with George Monbiot and Binyamin Appelbaum)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - October 08, 2019 07:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
It’s trendy to mock the malicious pervasiveness of neoliberalism now, but have you ever wondered what its origins are? This week, George Monbiot and Binyamin Appelbaum join the show to uncover just where the dominant economic theory of our time came from and how it took hold.   George Monbiot wri...

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Ramblings - George Monbiot in search of the wild

Go Wild - June 14, 2019 06:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratings
Clare Balding goes rambling, near Machynlleth, with the writer and environmentalist, George Monbiot. The theme of this series of Ramblings is 'In Search Of.' and, together, George and Clare are walking in search of wildness. George's new book, 'Feral', is partly a personal story about his attem...

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#32 (June 2019) author George Monbiot, One Planet Pizza, Dirty Sanchez Goes Dirty Vegan, and music from Matty G and L'il Winter.

Viva! Vegan Podcast - May 31, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In this jam-packed episode hosted by Kris Townsend, Juliet and Tony interview — environmental and political columnist, author and campaigner. We catch up with the brilliant team who completed their momentous marathon challenge! We feature the first of our interviews from our Magical Viva! Vegan...

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Episode 27 George Monbiot: Can We Keep Growing?

Dane Baptiste Questions Everything - April 15, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Welcome to Dane Baptiste Questions Everything, a podcast where comedian Dane Baptiste, producer Howard Cohen and a special guest take turns posing questions that just need answering. This is episode 27, our special guest is the writer, Guardian Columnist and environmental campaigner George Monb...

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Episode 41 - Interview with George Monbiot

LawPod - April 10, 2019 10:12 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Episode 41 - Interview with George Monbiot

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#10 Rewriting the Political Story with George Monbiot

People, Politics and Planet - February 25, 2019 19:29 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Keynesianism failed. Neoliberalism failed. What’s our new political narrative? As the world faces populism, fascism and environmental disaster, the urgency for common ground and connection increases. On this episode, esteemed journalist and author George Monbiot argues that our only way...

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#10 Rewriting the Political Story with George Monbiot

People, Politics and Planet - February 25, 2019 19:29 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Keynesianism failed. Neoliberalism failed. What’s our new political narrative? As the world faces populism, fascism and environmental disaster, the urgency for common ground and connection increases. On this episode, esteemed journalist and author George Monbiot argues that our only way...

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5. George Monbiot

Future To Fight For - September 28, 2018 09:14 - 32 minutes ★★★ - 1 rating
Author, activist, and environmentalist George Monbiot joins us for a conversation about the failures of Neoliberalism, and what might replace it.

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Ep. 89 George Monbiot "Beyond Salvation and Disaster"

Team Human - June 06, 2018 13:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 332 ratings
Playing for Team Human today is activist, Guardian columnist, and author of Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis, George Monbiot. Monbiot and Rushkoff discuss the abysmal failure of neoliberalism, a narrative that figures humans as self-interested, competitive, and greedy cr...

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The Dig: Telling a New Story with George Monbiot

Jacobin Radio - May 23, 2018 09:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
A laundry list of modest policy solutions is not enough, it turns out. It's not just that technocratic fixes around the edges spectacularly fail to meet people's needs; in failing to articulate a big picture vision of how the world ought to be transformed, they fail to move people — either emoti...

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Earth Day: Jane Goodall and George Monbiot on How to Save the Planet

Animal Voices - April 21, 2018 03:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Happy Earth Day! We listen to and discuss the words of renowned thinkers Jane Goodall and George Monbiot on the environmental impact of animal agriculture, and what can be done to help stop catastrophic climate change.

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TALKING POLITICS - March 15, 2018 01:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 619 ratings
We talk to George about some of the biggest questions of all: how to make politics better, how to effect meaningful change, how to save the planet. Who is going to make the real difference? Plus we ask whether he's been discombobulated by having Michael Gove as Environment Secretary. Short answer...

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George Monbiot: What Makes Us Human?

What Makes Us Human - March 02, 2018 14:19 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
The journalist and activist joins us to answer the question.

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Out of the Wreckage: George Monbiot

Prifysgol Caerdydd - Cardiff University - December 11, 2017 19:19 - 1 hour
Writer and Guardian columnist delivers this lecture as part of his book tour for 'Out of the Wreckage: A new politics for an age of crisis'

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George Monbiot on Reinhabiting an Ecological Commons /59

For The Wild - December 01, 2017 17:24 ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Today we speak with George Monbiot, who studied zoology at Oxford, and has spent his career as a journalist and environmentalist, working with others to defend the natural world. His celebrated Guardian columns are syndicated all over the world. George is the author of the bestselling books Feral...

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GEORGE MONBIOT on Reinhabiting an Ecological Commons /59

For The Wild - December 01, 2017 17:24 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Today we speak with George Monbiot, who studied zoology at Oxford, and has spent his career as a journalist and environmentalist, working with others to defend the natural world. His celebrated Guardian columns are syndicated all over the world...Support the show

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#97: George Monbiot meets Sustainababble

Sustainababble - November 26, 2017 09:17 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 120 ratings
Environmentalist. Author. Guardian columnist. Campaigner. Brain on legs. We grab some time at home with George Monbiot, everyone's favourite font of wisdom. In a wide-ranging babblechat, we find out why everyone being so bloody lonely is knackering the Earth, and how we can come together and make...

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ReWilding Land, People & Wildlife - George Monbiot #171

ReWild Yourself - November 01, 2017 23:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 857 ratings
“Rewilding holds out hope of a richer living planet that can once more fill our lives with wonder and enchantment.” -George Monbiot Prolific author George Monbiot joins us to share his niche in the world of rewilding: rewilding the land. George is an investigative journalist who writes a weekl...

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S2 Ep.8: George Monbiot

News Roast - October 20, 2017 15:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Journalist and activist George Monbiot joins Jolyon and Heydon to discuss veganism and Jeremy Corbyn amongst other topics. Warning: contains strong language.

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George Monbiot in Conversation

NT Talks - July 28, 2017 10:52 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
George Monbiot is a bestselling UK-based author and columnist known for his writing on environmental and political issues and activism. Here he will focus on the issue of common land as a starting point for a wide-ranging discussion, as DC Moore's new play, Common, plays at the National. Monbi...

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#011 Fascism Or Democracy - Is This Our Last Chance To Choose? (with George Monbiot)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand - May 17, 2017 23:08 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.1K ratings
George Monbiot and I discuss the dark money capturing our politics for the billionaires and corporations; the terrifying power of Big Data; and the opportunity for a new democracy.

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George Monbiot and John Lanchester: How Did We Get into This Mess?

London Review Bookshop Podcast - July 07, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 54 ratings
In this podcast George Monbiot and John Lanchester discuss Monbiot’s latest book 'How Did We Get into this Mess?' (Verso) and assess the state we are now in: the devastation of the natural world, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, our obsessions with growth and profit and...

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Ed Miliband and George Monbiot in conversation - Guardian Live event

We Need to Talk About... - March 22, 2016 09:31 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Are we failing to achieve a clear global consensus on how to tackle climate change? Former leader of the Labour party Ed Miliband, Guardian journalist George Monbiot and scientist Helen Czerski debate the implications of the historic Paris agreement

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George Monbiot in search of the wild

Ramblings - June 06, 2013 14:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 139 ratings
Clare Balding goes rambling, near Machynlleth, with the writer and environmentalist, George Monbiot. The theme of this series of Ramblings is 'In Search Of.' and, together, George and Clare are walking in search of wildness. George's new book, 'Feral', is partly a personal story about his attem...

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Q&A: George Monbiot, Journalist and Author

Free Forum with Terrence McNally - September 27, 2007 19:01 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
George Monbiot is a journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist in the United Kingdom who writes a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper. He is on the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine. Monbiot’s most recent book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning, ...