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8. Why Donald Trump is Last Gasp of Fossil Fuel Driven Capitalism and How Local Communities Reshape World | Rob Hopkins of Transition Network
Rob Hopkins (@robintransition) is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network - a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world.
Rob is a serial blogger, both on Transition Network and at robhopkins.net, and author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff , The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion. He has been awarded a PhD by the University of Plymouth and an Honorary Doctorate by the University of the West of England. In 2012 he was voted one of the Independent's top 100 environmentalists and one of ‘Britain’s 50 New Radicals’.
He has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Four Thought’ and on ‘A Good Read’, in addition to speaking at TED Global once, and at 3 TEDx events. He is an Ashoka Fellow, a keen gardener and one of the founders of New Lion Brewery in Totnes and a Director of Atmos Totnes, a very ambitious community-led development project.
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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
* How local communities are reshaping the world and economy
* The exciting advances in renewable energies and combatting climate change
* What happens when communities create their own currencies
* How and why we need to address climate change
* Why Donald Trump is the last gasp of fossil fuel driven capitalism
* How the governments of the future are evolving today
* Why Rob is optimistic in the face of great challenges
* Where we are headed with urban farming
* Is community-owned resources the answer to societies problems
Transcript
NOTE: This transcript is auto-translated from Youtube. It isn’t 100% perfect. To help us have the resources to put more effort into translations and the podcast, please consider making a tax-deductible donation.
Rob: Donald Trump has been the last gasp of patriarchal fossil fuel driven Emperor's New Clothes capitalism or do we look at Donald Trump as being the beginning of the beginning is the end I don't know I always said to be a really optimistic person and and I used to do a lot of work with people on building projects and working in woods and stuff and I remember a friend of mine saying that when you're working with a chainsaw and you're cutting trees that it's the moment that when you're working with a chainsaw and it runs out of petrol just before it runs out of petrol it has a final big rev there you have this bigger room th...
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Rob Hopkins (@robintransition) is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network - a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world.
Rob is a serial blogger, both on Transition Network and at robhopkins.net, and author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff , The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion. He has been awarded a PhD by the University of Plymouth and an Honorary Doctorate by the University of the West of England. In 2012 he was voted one of the Independent's top 100 environmentalists and one of ‘Britain’s 50 New Radicals’.
He has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Four Thought’ and on ‘A Good Read’, in addition to speaking at TED Global once, and at 3 TEDx events. He is an Ashoka Fellow, a keen gardener and one of the founders of New Lion Brewery in Totnes and a Director of Atmos Totnes, a very ambitious community-led development project.
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Subscribe on Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Android | Overcast | Spotify | Youtube
You can listen right here on iTunes
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
* How local communities are reshaping the world and economy
* The exciting advances in renewable energies and combatting climate change
* What happens when communities create their own currencies
* How and why we need to address climate change
* Why Donald Trump is the last gasp of fossil fuel driven capitalism
* How the governments of the future are evolving today
* Why Rob is optimistic in the face of great challenges
* Where we are headed with urban farming
* Is community-owned resources the answer to societies problems
Transcript
NOTE: This transcript is auto-translated from Youtube. It isn’t 100% perfect. To help us have the resources to put more effort into translations and the podcast, please consider making a tax-deductible donation.
Rob: Donald Trump has been the last gasp of patriarchal fossil fuel driven Emperor's New Clothes capitalism or do we look at Donald Trump as being the beginning of the beginning is the end I don't know I always said to be a really optimistic person and and I used to do a lot of work with people on building projects and working in woods and stuff and I remember a friend of mine saying that when you're working with a chainsaw and you're cutting trees that it's the moment that when you're working with a chainsaw and it runs out of petrol just before it runs out of petrol it has a final big rev there you have this bigger room th...