Yes, there is an alternative
- Date & time
- –
- Speaker
- George Monbiot, Jeremy LentGeorge Monbiot - journalist and author; Jeremy Lent - author and speaker
- Location
- RSA House and YouTube
- Organisation
- RSA
Topics
About this talk
Author and journalist George Monbiot in conversation with author Jeremy Lent on what a life-enhancing future could look like. Ever since Margaret Thatcher's declaration of TINA (There Is No Alternative) in 1980, virtually all policy proposals to fix society's grave problems work within the dominant framework of growth-based consumer capitalism. What if this framework is the problem? What if there actually is an alternative? To reimagine and reframe the conversation, join us for an evening with George Monbiot and Jeremy Lent who will discuss what the world might look like if it were organised, not for extraction, exploitation and elite wealth accumulation, but to instead set the conditions for all beings to thrive on a regenerated Earth. Covering themes from Lent's new book, Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All, they will explore the transformative ideas already put into practice around the world—spanning the globe from Mondragón, Spain, to Jackson, Mississippi and Kerala, India—and discuss how these examples might weave together into a new societal fabric.
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