Does consumption lie at the heart of our global crises?

The Covid-19 crisis has disrupted ‘business as usual’ in every country around the world, providing a unique opportunity to press for systemic change and address the global challenges of our time.

Join world-renowned investigative journalist, author and environmental campaigner George Monbiot for a livestream talk and interactive Q&A. George will unpack some of the complex problems behind the world’s most pressing and persistent issues, exploring the catastrophic effect of consumption on people and planet.

LOVE IT TV in association with The Ecologist and Resurgence Events brings you an evening designed to educate, engage and entertain. This multicamera, studio event with George will include a powerful poetry performance from Climbing PoeTree, animation from TreeSisters, talks from visionaries such as Satish Kumar, Gabriela Cabana-Alvear, Jonathan Neale and Mac Macartney from Embercombe, as well as music from Mobius Loop and Tallulah Rendall.

About George Monbiot
George Monbiot is an author, a columnist at The Guardian, and an environmental campaigner. His books include ‘Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis’, ‘How Did We Get Into This Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature’, ‘Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life’, ‘The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order’, ‘Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning’ and ‘Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain’.

For more about George and details of his books, visit monbiot.com

How to join this event
You can watch this interactive stream from anywhere in the world. Send your questions for George to events@resurgence.org with ‘Question for George Monbiot’ as the subject. 

We’ll send out the link and password just prior to the event so that you can access the livestream.

We want this event to be accessible to as many people as possible, so we have a scale of ticket prices. Please choose the ticket price that you can afford. If you want to watch the livestream with other household members, we recommend £15 minimum.

Income from this event will go towards production costs and speaker fees and also support the work of The Resurgence Trust and LOVE IT TV.

Tickets £10 to £25

Other contributors

Climbing Poetree

Climbing PoeTree is the combined force of two boundary-breaking soul sisters who believe that creativity is the antidote to destruction. With roots in Colombia and Haiti, Alixa and Naima reside in Brooklyn, they have sharpened their art as a tool to expose injustice, dissolve apathy, channel hope into vision, and make a better future visible, immediate, and irresistible.

This performance will be taken from an annual Bioneers conference. Bioneers is an innovative nonprofit organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and planet. A celebration of the genius of nature and human ingenuity, Bioneers connects people with solutions and each other. It serves as a fertile hub for social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.

Gabriela Cabaña

Gabriela Cabaña explores the intersections between degrowth, feminist critiques of the economy and anti-colonial struggles for self-determination. She is also a Basic Income advocate. Garbiela is based in Chiloé, south of Chile, as part of her Anthropology PhD studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. There she is looking into energy transitions in the context of the ongoing climate and ecological emergency and how the narratives about the future of energy reproduce colonial and extractive relations.

She is part of the Centro de Análisis Socioambiental (Centre for Social-Environmental Analysis) and the Red Chilena de Ingreso Básico (Chilean Basic Income Network).

TreeSisters

TreeSisters is a social change and reforestation charity that places tropical forest restoration into everyone’s hands. They fund a diverse portfolio of tropical reforestation projects that are ethical and community-led to expand natural forest cover and avoid further deforestation. Their ethical and community-led projects improve livelihoods, protect critically endangered species, and focus on gender parity and the participation of women. They are a direct and measurable way to restore the web of life and mitigate climate change. TreeSisters actively encourage the cultural shift required to grow from a consumer to a restorative culture.

Satish Kumar

Life-long activist and former monk, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. In his 20s, Satish undertook a peace-pilgrimage for nuclear disarmament, walking without money from India to America. Now in his 80s, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration, social justice and spiritual fulfilment. An acclaimed author and international speaker, Satish founded The Resurgence Trust, an educational charity that seeks a just future for all. To join Satish in protecting people and planet become a member of Resurgence (with 20% off), entitling you to this charity’s change-making magazine, Resurgence & Ecologist.

Jonathan Neale 

Author of ‘Fight the Fire’, Jonathan Neale explores the politics of green new deals. Looking at both the global South and global North, Jonathan will discuss the climate jobs that would be part of any new deal and the changes that are needed to move beyond the constraints of the market and address the most pressing issue of our time.

Jonathan Neale’s latest book ‘Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs’ was published by The Ecologist so as to make this compelling and concise guide to averting climate breakdown free and accessible to all. 

Mac Macartney 

Mac Macartney is an international speaker, writer and change-maker. He is also the founder of the leadership-based social enterprise, Embercombe. Over a period of twenty years Mac was mentored by a group of indigenous elders. During this training and ever since, he has attempted to bring two worlds together – an ancient world-view that emphasises relationship, interdependence, and reverence for life with the significant challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century.

Mobius Loop 

Mobius Loop is a folk band that create create gloriously eccentric, philosophical world folk songs. 

Tallulah Rendall

Tallulah Rendall is a songwriter of substance with the heart of a lioness. A world renowned Singer-Songwriter who has written, produced and toured 5 albums. She is also a Creative Facilitator empowering people through Qi Gong & Sound Meditation to connect to their creative expression and lead happier, healthier and more embodied lives.

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