George Monbiot: The new political story that could change everything
جورج مونبيت: القصة السياسية الجديدة التي يمكنها تغيير كل شيء
As George Monbiot puts it: "I spend my life looking for ways to untangle the terrible mess we’ve got ourselves into." Full bio
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of our descendants?
بشكل خرافي؟
for their misfortune?
that never seems to die,
that the financial crisis of 2008
في عام 2008
of neoliberalism.
its central features,
business and finance,
competition with each other,
is that we have not yet produced
أننا لم ننتج بعد
by which we navigate the world.
التي ننتقل بواسطتها حول العالم.
its complex and contradictory signals.
وإشاراتها المتناقضة.
and the world to behave?
however important facts and figures are --
مع ذلك فالحقائق والأرقام المهمة هي...
I believe in facts and figures --
وأؤمن في الحقائق والأرقام...
to displace a persuasive story.
لتحل محل القصة المُقنعة.
that we are attuned to,
القصص التي ننسجم معها،
that we use again and again,
التي نستخدمها مرارًا وتكرارًا،
tremendously powerful,
against this disorder,
political and religious transformation
new restoration story,
triggered the Great Depression,
في حدوث الكساد الكبير،
sat down to write a new economics,
a restoration story,
forces of the economic elite,
للنخبة الاقتصادية،
by working class and middle class people,
الطبقة العاملة وأبناء الطبقة المتوسطة،
by redistributing wealth,
عن طريق إعادة توزيع الثروة،
public money on public goods
على البضائع العامة
across the political spectrum.
labor and conservatives,
وحزب العمل والمحافظون،
broadly, Keynesian.
يتبعون النظرية الكينزية على نطاق واسع.
عندما واجهت الكينزية الاقتصادية مشكلة
Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman,
مثل فريدريك هايك وميلتون فريدمان،
their new restoration story,
and nefarious forces
crush freedom and individualism
the entrepreneur,
wealth and opportunity,
across the political spectrum.
عبر الطيف السياسي.
conservatives and labor,
وحزب العمل،
was a watered-down neoliberalism
that explains the present
to as wide a range of people as possible,
أكبر عدد ممكن من الناس،
with deep needs and desires.
مع رغبات واحتياجات عميقة.
like a bit of a tall order.
بدا كمهمة صعبة جدًا.
convergence of findings
and neuroscience and evolutionary biology,
وعلم الأعصاب وعلم الأحياء التطويري،
something pretty amazing:
this massive capacity for altruism.
and greed inside us,
القليل من الأنانية والشجع،
those are not our dominant values.
ليست هذه هي القيم المهيمنة.
the supreme cooperators.
than our predators and most of our prey,
من مهاجمينا ومعظم ضحايانا،
to engage in mutual aid,
للمشاركة في المعونة المتبادلة،
has been hardwired into our minds
crucial facts about humankind:
بشأن البشرية:
by several forces,
is the dominant political narrative
هيمنة السرد القصصي السياسي
in extreme individualism
أن نعيش في فردية متطرفة
to fear and mistrust each other.
وأن نخاف ولا نثق ببعضنا البعض.
that make our lives worth living.
التي تجعل حياتنا تستحق أن نحياها.
for togetherness and belonging,
على الانتماء والعمل معًا،
components of our humanity:
we can build a thriving civic life
نستطيع أن نبني حياة مدنية مزدهرة
between market and state,
بين السوق والدولة،
that respects both people and planet.
يحترم كلًا من البشر وكوكب الارض.
around that great neglected sphere,
بشأن الدائرة المهملة الكبيرة
capitalism nor communism,
لا الرأسمالية ولا الشيوعية،
that manages that resource;
the community develops to manage it.
لإدارة ذلك المورد.
or community energy cooperatives
أو في تعاونيات المجتمع الفعالة
for growing fruit and vegetables
it can't be given away,
among the members of the community.
بين أعضاء المجتمع.
from the people who have captured it.
من الأشخاص الذين استولوا عليها.
and methods of elections
never trumps democratic power again.
لن تتغلب مجددًا على القوة الديمقراطية.
be tempered by participatory democracy
بالديمقراطية التشاركية.
our political choices,
as much as possible at the local level.
على المستوى المحلي.
it shouldn't be determined nationally.
لا يتعين تحديده وطنيًا.
the politics of belonging.
the potential to appeal
القدرة على جذب
is that among the very few values
أنه من بين القيم القليلة جدًا
slightly different things by them,
with some language in common.
as being a search for belonging.
باعتبارها من أجل الانتماء.
إلى المجتمع.
homogenous community
and wears the same uniform
ويرتدي الجميع زيًا موحدًا
is a community based on bridging networks,
يرتكز على مد الجسور بين المجموعات،
people from a homogenous group,
من مجموعة متجانسة،
people from different groups.
الناس معًا من مجموعات مختلفة.
bridging communities,
وتتسم بالثراء والحيوية بما يكفي،
for people to burrow into the security
في السطو على أمن
something like this.
and nefarious forces
there's no such thing as society,
our highest purpose in life
over a dustbin.
by building rich, engaging,
عن طريق بناء مجتمعات غنية ومشاركة
you feel this is the right story,
بأن هذه هي القصة الصحيحة،
out of the mess we're in,
and tells us how to get out of that mess.
وكيف لنا الخروج منها.
across the political spectrum.
عبر الطيف السياسي.
that lights the path to a better world.
إلى عالمٍ أفضل.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
George Monbiot - Rewilding campaignerAs George Monbiot puts it: "I spend my life looking for ways to untangle the terrible mess we’ve got ourselves into."
Why you should listen
As a young man, George Monbiot spent six years working as an investigative journalist in West Papua, Brazil and East Africa, during which time he was shot at, shipwrecked, beaten up, stung into a poisoned coma by hornets, became lost for days in a rainforest, where he ate rats and insects to avert starvation and was (incorrectly) pronounced clinically dead in a hospital in northern Kenya. Today, he leads a less adventurous life as an author, columnist for the Guardian newspaper and environmental campaigner. Among his books and projects are Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life; The Age of Consent and Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, as well as the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness. His latest book is Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis. He has made a number of viral videos. One of them, How Wolves Change Rivers, has been watched 30m times on YouTube.
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