Pop stars and musicians from continent to continent. Countless artworks and installations are flown around the world for Current Affairs and exhibitions. And architects use huge amounts of resources for their constructions the Culture Industries c o 2 footprint is and. That has to change and thats our topic today starting off with a look at the whole picture the Climate Crisis has become a hot topic worldwide largely due to the Younger Generation whove been very vocal in demanding solutions they want to see Decisive Action now. Changes with quiet still nowhere in sight. Meanwhile politicians are still debating the issue and have a hard time agreeing on a course of action. For 25 years we have been trying to solve the Climate Crisis through Market Mechanisms and emissions have gone up year after year after year you know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for different results globalization critic and environmental activist naomi klein warns
This is an hour and 20 minutes. Okay, welcome welcome everyone to this talk with mike davis. It is exciting to see people joining from all over the country, all around the world really. It is exciting to have this chance to hear and engage with mike. And a longtime comrade, we are also both publishers of mike davis, very proud and we are teaming up to do a series of things during this pandemic crisis as part of our political, intellectual, Cultural Mission but also because we are on lockdown, trying to find new ways to share information. It is very exciting for me to be collaborating with my close friend, you might have cut haymarket, with naomi klein, marvelous events, superinformative, inspiring, 15,000 of us participated aiming to be a theory they put together, haymarket in fact has already organized a followup to naomi klein, and they are going to reconvene these three and discuss the politics of coronavirus and that next talk will be broadcast on thursday april 9th, not this thurs
On right now citizens around the world are dealing with shock and not only because were forced sex walled 6 feet apart which is. Difficult and messy and really not very romantic especially when youre on different balconies with the 30 foot drop between you and the other people on the other balconies to watch its rough its terrible but were also shocked because people are losing their jobs their security their futures the Federal Reserve now estimates coronavirus job losses could total 47000000. 00 and the Unemployment Rate may hit 32 percent these shocks are being exploited by the ruling elite the largest way that theyve used it so far is to pass their 2 trillion dollar giveaway to Corporate America with little to no oversight practically no discussion is even going on about it i mean why we get why should we why should we stop to think about the long. Just daft ever seen in American History now and not Important Congress has to run home to take care of their mistresses nieces blind ad
Its an honor to be able to sit down with Howard Bryant and his book is called full dissidence notes from an uneven Playing Field. How are you mr. Bryant . Guest its good to see you again. Host this is a very interesting book today the chance to really read through it here and i really couldnt put it down. You attend original essays and i think he really touched on a lot of different topics with the different worlds that exist and they think mainstream america arent aware of those two worlds even though we are talking about them and pointing things out you do a good job of laying everything out through these different essays. You dedicated the book for tests. Guess who she is my other sister she is the original troublemakers i wanted to make sure i acknowledged her and she is one of the people that we always talk about in terms of when she and i go back and forth over the years talking about all the different subjects and details and of all the books ive done i thought this was the most
Bits and pieces down in mexico and i will tell you this the Mexican Government was kind but they asked all of us gringos to please go home and that was simply because they havent gotten hit yet and they feel if they do get hit they dont have the capability to take care of their people as well as our people so i followed their advice i drove my wife and i drove home and i got to tell you it was one of the greatest drives home traffic is down to virtually nothing you can get a hotel rooms any way you want food is there but you gotta go pick it up you can go sit down and eat and all the gas stations are open and the prices i cant believe i was paying a 1. 73 a gallon out there now isnt it ironic that the prices are dropping through are so low now and yet were not allowed to or shouldnt be. Dr big i guarantee you the minute this virus has passed watch those gas prices shoot right up. Well well have to wait and see whether that happens is a heck of a time for you to be back since you said y