Dear Fabian,
Congrats!
You continue to do your great work, as always!
It inspires and gives me strength to carry on struggling for a better world.
I will share your message with my children and friends.
Abrazos
/Azril

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From: Fabian Scheidler <fabian.scheidler@...>
Date: Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 2:53 PM
Subject: New Kontext TV broadcast: "George Monbiot: Alienation,
Environmental Breakdown and the Search for a New Progressive Narrative"
To: Fabian Scheidler <fabian.scheidler@...>


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Ladies and Gentlemen, dear friends and colleagues,

the independent newscast Kontext TV has published a new broadcast:
*George Monbiot: Alienation, Environmental Breakdown and the Search for a
New Progressive Narrative*

The English version of the broadcast can be found here:
www.kontext-tv.de/en/broadcasts/george-monbiot-alienation-environmental-breakdown-and-search-new-progressive-narrative

With:
*George Monbiot*, columnist with the Guardian und author of "Heat: How to
Stop the Planet Burning" and "Out of the Wreckage. A New Politics for an
Age of Crisis“.

Decades of neoliberal politics and ideology have undermined the coherence
of societies worldwide, creating the conditions for the resurgence of
right-wing demagogues and fascism, according to George Monbiot. In Britain,
citizens were frustrated with the lack of political choice and used the EU
referendum as a „kick at the establishment“. However, Brexit could turn out
as a disaster for the majority of Britons. The billionaire class including
the media oligarchs are pushing for a hard Brexit in order to achieve a
regulation vacuum and to tie the UK closer to the deregulated US economy.
Meanwhile the world is mover quickly toward climate breakdown and toward a
collapse of food production. Industrial farming, especially the production
of meat, is responsible for ecological destruction on an even faster pace
than climate disruption. The UN have already warned that only 60 years of
harvests remain, if agriculture does not change profoundly. Moreover,
pollination of rice and maize could be inhibited with further warming, as
these plants only pollinate at night below certain temperatures - with
devastating consequences for global food supply.
The activist group "Extinction Rebellion“ is striving for an exit of fossil
fuels by 2025, occupying bridges and government facilities. „Direct
actions“ of this type are needed to ring the alarm bells. However, in
addition to actions, a new progressive narrative is needed, in order to
replace the morally and politically bankrupt neoliberal agenda.

The broadcast has four parts:
*1. "We Are Pushed into Loneliness by an Alienating Economic System” / The
Resurgence of Fascism: a Response to the Neoliberal Atomization of Society*
: /www.kontext-tv.de/en/node/2915
*2. UK: „We Live in a Desperate and Polarized Nation” / Brexit: The Power
of Media Oligarchs, the Regulation Vacuum and Losing Sovereignty to the US*
: /www.kontext-tv.de/en/node/2916
*3. "Only 60 Years of Harvests Left": Environmental Breakdown,
Insectageddon and the Ravages of Industrial Agriculture*: /
www.kontext-tv.de/en/node/2917
*4. Extinction Rebellion: Pushing for an End to Fossil Fuels by 2025 /
Attempt to Arrest John Bolton / The Search for a New Progressive Narrative*
: /www.kontext-tv.de/en/node/2918

The broadcast can be integrated on other sites by "embedded code". It is
also free for non-commercial radio and television stations to broadcast
under Creative Commons (CC-NC-BY).

Fabian Scheidler will be on a *lecture tour *again this spring: in Berlin,
at the National Theater in Gent (Belgium), in Luxemburg and in other
places: www.megamaschine.org/en/on-tour/lectures-2019

Kontext TV is also present on *Facebook*: http://www.facebook.com/KontextTV
You can follow us on *Twitter* as well: https://twitter.com/KontextTV

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With best wishes

Fabian Scheidler

Fabian Scheidler
Editor
Kontext TV
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