The Climate Coup with Mark Alizart and Robin Mackay

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• 00:00:00

  you . Good evening, everyone. My name is Mathias Rambaud. I run the book department at the French Institute in London. Welcome to the physical audience and to the digital audience through our live stream to this first event, which is the first of a series of talks entitled The Earth Here and Now, a series of talks…

• 00:11:17

  The way that you open the book is to say that ecology has won. Ecology has won the battle for hearts and minds. And not only that, but the technology is also there. And yet, nothing's changed. And because nothing's changed, I would add, also, there's a growing disenchantment with being asked to do more, being asked…

• 00:20:40

  There's always a they. There's a they, there's a cabal, there's a, there's a secret group, a minority group who are running things. And, you know, another way to look at it would be, it's systemic, you know, there's, yes, there's incompetence, there's greed, there's profiteering, but all of those are part…

• 00:29:58

  The party itself was 27% or 30% in the elections. Nobody believed because it was just too far away to believe these things. But these things actually happened. So at what point are we supposed to be like the socialist left of Germany in 1930 to whom Trotsky writes, do not underestimate this guy. He will fight…

• 00:38:37

  The question about the battle in the war. The question about the fact that awareness is here but nothing is happening. This we have to unblock now. We have two or three years to unblock it. After that, it's over. And these two or three years, I believe, have to be used to change the way environmentalists talk about…

• 00:47:35

  That's it. That's what fascism is about. And that's what Trump managed to do, in a partial way. He didn't, he failed to get to him what Marx called the lumpenproletariat, which is even under the proletariat. Proletariat today is more like the petty bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie. The class petit bourgeoisie. The real…

• 00:56:46

  And, and I just wonder when, when, when you, when you talked about the Greta Thunberg quotation, right? You know, that, that either you're evil or you're stupid. To what extent this is a problem of evil, right? The discourse of environmentalism is somehow, oh, that appeals to people's moral nature, but one should…

• 01:08:01

  Other questions? Well, I'd like to thank you. Thanks, Mark. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Thank you. Merci. Merci de vous recevoir. The Climate Coup, which is available in all good bookshops right now. And thanks, everyone, for coming out. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank…