{"id":5239,"date":"2019-04-03T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T07:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=5239"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:48:47","slug":"george-monbiot-kontext-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/tip\/george-monbiot-kontext-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"George Monbiot: Alienation, Environmental Breakdown and the Search for a New Progressive Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>George Monbiot: Alienation, Environmental Breakdown and the Search for a New Progressive Narrative<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In this video founder of Kontext TV-, Fabian Scheidler, interviews, George Monbiot, columnist with the Guardian and author of\u00a0<em>Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Out of the Wreckage. A New Politics for an Age of Crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO: &#8220;We Are Pushed into Loneliness by an Alienating Economic System\u201d \/ The Resurgence of Fascism: a Response to the Neoliberal Atomization of Society<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"George Monbiot: Alienation, Environmental Breakdown and the Search for a New Progressive Narrative\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jjiRUP6TWhk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Loneliness has become a genuine epidemic, not only among elderly people, but in all generations \u2013 an affliction responsible for grave mental and physical diseases. This epidemic is caused, according to George Monbiot, by a neoliberal economy and ideology which claims that people are greedy selfish creatures competing in a \u201ewar of all against all\u201c. Social psychology, anthropology and evolutionary biology, however, tell us that the key values of human beings are a sense of community and altruism. The atomization of society is also creating the conditions for the resurgence of right-wing and fascist demagogues who promise community and coherence to people who feel disenfrachised, dispossessed and alienated.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ABOUT KONTEXT TV<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cNwr9YAi_400x400.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cNwr9YAi_400x400-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Kontext TV\" width=\"113\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cNwr9YAi_400x400-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cNwr9YAi_400x400-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cNwr9YAi_400x400.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a>Kontext TV<\/strong>\u00a0is an independent TV news magazine based in Berlin. It was founded in December 2009 by David Goe\u00dfmann and Fabian Scheidler.<\/p>\n<p>They cover\u00a0urgent topics\u00a0 such as climate change, war and peace, social justice, financial crises and migration\u00a0and their guests include Noam Chomsky (official supporter of Kontext TV), St\u00e9phane Hessel, Aminata Traor\u00e9, Vandana Shiva, John Hilary, Saskia Sassen, Alberto Acosta, Maude Barlow, Nnimmo Bassey, Susan George, Alyn Ware, Amy Goodman, Pat Mooney, Ester Vivas, Aris Chatzistefanou, Heiner Flassbeck, Nicola Bullard, Immanuel Wallerstein, Bill McKibben, Eric Toussaint, Harald Schumann and many other activists, intellectuals and scientists in Europe and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00a0have been publishing and airing our broadcasts, interviews and blogs online and on community TV and radio stations in Germany and Austria since 2009. Most of\u00a0their one hundred broadcasts have been aired and transcribed both in German and English.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video founder of Kontext TV-, Fabian Scheidler, interviews, George Monbiot, columnist with the Guardian and author of Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burningand Out of the Wreckage. 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