George Monbiot: The new political story that could change everything
乔治·蒙比尔特: 创造能够改变一切的新政治故事
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?
获得难以想象的财富。
for their misfortune?
that never seems to die,
that the financial crisis of 2008
of neoliberalism.
its central features,
business and finance,
competition with each other,
只是有点瑕疵罢了。
is that we have not yet produced
by which we navigate the world.
its complex and contradictory signals.
复杂和矛盾的信号。
and the world to behave?
人们和世界的行为方式?
however important facts and figures are --
然而事实和数据——
I believe in facts and figures --
我相信事实和数字——
一个有说服力的故事。
to displace a persuasive story.
that we are attuned to,
that we use again and again,
一次又一次的基本情节,
tremendously powerful,
against this disorder,
political and religious transformation
new restoration story,
triggered the Great Depression,
sat down to write a new economics,
写了一本新经济学,
a restoration story,
讲一个关于修复的故事,
forces of the economic elite,
by working class and middle class people,
赋权下的这个国家
by redistributing wealth,
打压这些强势力量,
public money on public goods
花在公共产品上
across the political spectrum.
labor and conservatives,
broadly, Keynesian.
Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman,
和米尔顿·弗里德曼,
their new restoration story,
and nefarious forces
crush freedom and individualism
粉碎了自由、个人主义
the entrepreneur,
wealth and opportunity,
across the political spectrum.
conservatives and labor,
新自由主义者。
was a watered-down neoliberalism
是淡化的新自由主义
that explains the present
to as wide a range of people as possible,
with deep needs and desires.
like a bit of a tall order.
convergence of findings
神经科学和进化生物学
and neuroscience and evolutionary biology,
something pretty amazing:
非常神奇的事情:
this massive capacity for altruism.
and greed inside us,
those are not our dominant values.
这些都不是我们的主流价值。
the supreme cooperators.
than our predators and most of our prey,
和大多数猎物都更弱更慢,
to engage in mutual aid,
has been hardwired into our minds
已经深深的烙印在
crucial facts about humankind:
by several forces,
几股力量的阻挠,
is the dominant political narrative
我们这个时代占主导地位
in extreme individualism
带着极端个人主义,
to fear and mistrust each other.
相互恐惧和互不信任。
that make our lives worth living.
有价值的社会纽带。
for togetherness and belonging,
和归属的惊人能力,
components of our humanity:
那些惊人的能力:
we can build a thriving civic life
可以用丰富的参与性文化
between market and state,
国家压得喘不过气来的地方,
that respects both people and planet.
人类和地球的经济。
around that great neglected sphere,
被忽视的领域——公地,
capitalism nor communism,
不是资本主义也不是共产主义,
that manages that resource;
the community develops to manage it.
的规则和谈判方法。
or community energy cooperatives
for growing fruit and vegetables
it can't be given away,
among the members of the community.
在社群成员间平等共享。
from the people who have captured it.
那里恢复民主。
and methods of elections
never trumps democratic power again.
不会再次超过民主权利。
be tempered by participatory democracy
参与式民主加以调和,
our political choices,
as much as possible at the local level.
it shouldn't be determined nationally.
它就不应该在国家层面上解决。
the politics of belonging.
the potential to appeal
is that among the very few values
slightly different things by them,
with some language in common.
as being a search for belonging.
政治是在寻找归属感。
homogenous community
and wears the same uniform
is a community based on bridging networks,
一个基于桥接网络的社群,
people from a homogenous group,
把同质的人组织在一起,
people from different groups.
把不同的群体带到一起。
bridging communities,
for people to burrow into the security
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,
参与、包容和慷慨的社群
you feel this is the right story,
我们需要这样一种思考。
out of the mess we're in,
所深陷的困境,
and tells us how to get out of that mess.
以及如何摆脱困境。
across the political spectrum.
that lights the path to a better world.
通向更美好世界之路的故事。
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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