George Monbiot: The new political story that could change everything
George Monbiot: La nueva historia política que podría cambiarlo todo
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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en un modelo económico roto?
el mundo de los seres vivos
of our descendants?
de nuestros descendientes?
a miles de millones de personas
se vuelven inimaginablemente ricos?
ganadores y perdedores,
for their misfortune?
por su mala suerte.
that never seems to die,
that the financial crisis of 2008
que la crisis financiera de 2008
en el colapso del neoliberalismo.
of neoliberalism.
its central features,
sus características centrales:
business and finance,
y las finanzas,
competition with each other,
extrema entre nosotros,
is that we have not yet produced
que todavía no hemos creado
con los que navegamos por el mundo.
by which we navigate the world.
its complex and contradictory signals.
sus complejas y contradictorias señales.
el significado de algo,
que se comporten los humanos y el mundo?
and the world to behave?
progresar una historia?
however important facts and figures are --
por importantes que sean -
creo en hechos y cifras,
I believe in facts and figures --
to displace a persuasive story.
desplazar una historia persuasiva.
la historia a una persona
that we are attuned to,
con las que estamos sintonizados,
narrativas particulares.
that we use again and again,
que usamos una y otra vez,
tremendously powerful,
de los intereses de la humanidad.
against this disorder,
contra este desorden,
de "El señor de los anillos".
political and religious transformation
transformaciones políticas y religiosas
new restoration story,
historia de restauración,
triggered the Great Depression,
faire" desencadenara la Gran Depresión,
sat down to write a new economics,
una nueva economía,
a restoration story,
forces of the economic elite,
fuerzas de la élite económica,
by working class and middle class people,
por la clase trabajadora y la clase media,
by redistributing wealth,
y redistribuirá la riqueza,
public money on public goods
en bienes públicos,
de restauración,
across the political spectrum.
labor and conservatives,
los laboristas y los conservadores,
broadly, Keynesian.
en términos generales, keynesianos.
Friedrich Hayek y Milton Friedman,
Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman,
their new restoration story,
de restauración,
and nefarious forces
y nefastas fuerzas
crush freedom and individualism
aplastan la libertad, el individualismo
the entrepreneur,
el emprendedor,
wealth and opportunity,
across the political spectrum.
en todo el espectro político.
conservatives and labor,
los conservadores y los laboristas,
en general, neoliberales.
was a watered-down neoliberalism
era un neoliberalismo diluido.
con la vieja historia fallida
en el que caemos
that explains the present
que explique el presente
a dónde tenemos que ir,
to as wide a range of people as possible,
a la mayor cantidad de personas posible,
with deep needs and desires.
deseos y necesidades.
like a bit of a tall order.
suena bastante difícil.
en las naciones occidentales,
convergence of findings
convergencia de hallazgos
neurociencia y biología evolutiva,
and neuroscience and evolutionary biology,
something pretty amazing:
this massive capacity for altruism.
una capacidad inmensa de altruismo.
and greed inside us,
y de codicia dentro de nosotros,
estos no son nuestros valores dominantes.
those are not our dominant values.
cooperadores supremos.
the supreme cooperators.
pese a ser más débiles
than our predators and most of our prey,
y que la mayoría de nuestras presas,
to engage in mutual aid,
para ayudarnos mutuamente,
has been hardwired into our minds
se ha programado en nuestras mentes
crucial facts about humankind:
y cruciales sobre la humanidad:
by several forces,
por varias fuerzas,
es la narrativa política
is the dominant political narrative
in extreme individualism
en un individualismo extremo
to fear and mistrust each other.
a temer y desconfiar el uno del otro.
que hacen que valga la pena vivir.
that make our lives worth living.
violentas e intolerantes.
de unión y de pertenencia,
for togetherness and belonging,
asombrosos de nuestra humanidad:
components of our humanity:
we can build a thriving civic life
construyamos una vida cívica próspera
between market and state,
entre el mercado y el estado,
that respects both people and planet.
respete a las personas y al planeta.
around that great neglected sphere,
en torno a esa gran esfera descuidada:
capitalism nor communism,
ni capitalismo ni comunismo,
that manages that resource;
que maneja ese recurso;
the community develops to manage it.
comunidad desarrolla para administrarlo.
or community energy cooperatives
o en cooperativas de energía comunitaria
for growing fruit and vegetables
para cultivar frutas y verduras
o parcelas comunes.
it can't be given away,
no se puede regalar,
among the members of the community.
entre los miembros de la comunidad.
de quienes nos la quitaron.
from the people who have captured it.
and methods of elections
y métodos electorales
no vuelva a triunfar sobre el democrático.
never trumps democratic power again.
be tempered by participatory democracy
moderada por la democracia participativa
nuestras elecciones políticas,
our political choices,
as much as possible at the local level.
como sea posible a nivel local.
it shouldn't be determined nationally.
no debe determinarse a nivel nacional.
the politics of belonging.
una política de pertenencia.
the potential to appeal
is that among the very few values
slightly different things by them,
cosas un poco diferentes,
con un lenguaje en común.
with some language in common.
as being a search for belonging.
considerarse una búsqueda de pertenencia.
homogenous community
espantosamente homogénea
y usan el mismo uniforme
and wears the same uniform
is a community based on bridging networks,
basada en redes de conexión,
people from a homogenous group,
de un grupo homogéneo,
une a personas de diferentes grupos.
people from different groups.
comunidades de conexión
bridging communities,
for people to burrow into the security
de que la gente se sumerja en la seguridad
something like this.
podría ser algo así:
and nefarious forces
y nefastas fuerzas de las personas
there's no such thing as society,
our highest purpose in life
que nuestro mayor propósito en la vida
over a dustbin.
por un cubo de basura.
by building rich, engaging,
construyendo comunidades ricas,
you feel this is the right story,
es la historia correcta,
en que necesitamos una.
de restauración,
del embrollo en el que estamos,
out of the mess we're in,
and tells us how to get out of that mess.
y nos dice cómo salir.
across the political spectrum.
en todo el espectro político.
that lights the path to a better world.
que ilumina el paso hacia un mundo mejor.
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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