Background

At the start of the second day of the National Digital Hui Jan 2019, we watched a rousing speech by Guardian Journalist and Climate Activist George Monbiot. The purpose of the video and feedback session was to energise participations and to reconnect around common ground.

Summary

  • Root causes:
    • Economic growth can’t be our core driver. t’s not just about climate change, but other environmental and social causes.
    • We need a new political and economic system.
  • Don’t wait for or rely on Government or Big Business who have failed us: it’s about power and vested interests, and we need to build counter power. What then, is their role?
  • Going beyond conservation into restoration: not just trying to keep what we have, but to bring back what we’ve lost.
  • Voice of the people, but change won’t come easy.
  • Energising and powerful.
  • Evidence-based passion.
  • Our responsibility to act.

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