Roger Hallam interviewed by Neta Ahituv (Ha'aretz/Israel) | Extinction Rebellion

The Day After | Humans and the Environment | Jerusalem Cinematheque [15.6.2020]

Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and Jennifer Morgan, CEO of Greenpeace International in conversation with Neta Ahituv, correspondent and editor of Ha'aretz newspaper.

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#climatechange
#globalwarming

[phillipmiddleton]

Thank you Roger, great to see you again, you give me the resolve and drive to disobey in support of all humanity.

[qtveggierex]

Thank you, Roger, for all you do. I'm grateful for Extinction Rebellion and thankful for strong courageous people like yourself.

[jessenoell]

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” Hannah Arendt

[shamus]

My sympathy goes out to this poor woman who had the honor of interviewing Roger. Roger doesn't mess around.

[joanneaustin]

I love to watch Roger Hallam interviews. He really doesn't mess around with pandering to the commonly held views on how change in societies occur. These are the same types of people who try to reimagine Martin Luther King in some sort of non-radical light in which change just happened and wasn't messy or inconvenient to people who were invested in the status quo. I can see that he is trying to be a little more sensitive than say a year ago. Probably someone talked to him about not creating more enemies, but the thing is he is not wrong. I think his gut instinct to not pander, not tip toe and not give ground is his strength and even if he angers the person who is interviewing him he is going to reach a lot more people watching the interview. The awareness is there already, it's just disconnected from the everyday world where no one on the mainstream media is treating the situation as an emergency. Some people are going to see the interview and be woken up by it and some of those people are going to be in the position to do something about it, however big or small that may be.

[achenarmyst]

I do love Roger’s brutally consequent ethics. It is the only stance that rises up to the demands we are facing as humanity. 👍
I was about to scream when she started talking of the poor cleaning woman who gets to work late because of XR action. 😡

[dominiquedeveaux]

just stopping CO2 emissions means massive sacrifice in the short term though right? I'm sure Roger knows this, but why not simply say it? She's saying "We don't know how to make the transition without hurting people now", and I think the response from Roger could have been "Yes, that's right. But some people will suffer no matter what. We cannot control that. However, we can alter the probabilities of extinction" @extinctionRebellion

[RussCR]

The journalist has not yet made that transition from vague intellectual awareness that a bumpy ride lies ahead to the wrenching emotional understanding that two of our plane's four engines are on fire, both pilots are drunk, and the plane is rapidly losing altitude. Roger is saying "Look out the damn window!" The journalist is saying "Well... statistics show that planes hardly ever crash and burn." Greenpeace is saying "Let's see if we can quickly train one of the passengers to be a pilot."

[mothrecorder]

Another example of why Roger is where it is at with understanding what's necessary in this dire situation. Without Roger this movement is frankly lost. Credit ought to be given this journalist interviewing Roger. Typically these people are pathological interrupters Roger was at least was allowed to make his points.

[andreapaul]

So true. I feel sick to my stomach that this is where we are at. That’s why we have to act.

[remicaron]

People don’t want to give up what they have and without the governments of the world forcing some to do it most won’t do it. The change will come whether we change or not it’s just what kind of change we want. Most people don’t understand that this way of life can’t continue and it won’t.

[claybomb]

The biggest story in human history and it has 200 views...

[jdevil]

If only steering humanity (and many other species) away from self destruction didn't look so much like pissing into the wind. When the people with the ability to shift our momentum are also those with the bigger slices of the pie, it always looks like crying, hoping a psychopath will have pity; futile, if not counterproductive.

[rapauli]

Roger, you were correct, but too tough. She is earnest in her question - and the answer is what Bill Nye said "We have to do everything, all at once" Citizens must demand of their governments that we join in the unified global action. To do anything less than a universal effort, means this is just a pep rally for the future. Our borders, boundaries and walls mean nothing to the physical reality of global warming. No problem, it is a lesson that will be repeated.

[brianwheeldon]

Greenpeace is great. They have been operating like this for 40 years and look where we are, nowhere. GHGs in particular co2 has increased 65percent since 1990. Greenpeace will not succeed in time. That's why XR is urgently needed.

[GoitreSanchez]

Shockingly poor journalism from a journalist who seems more concerned with asserting her supposed societal worth than engaging in objective reasoning.

[TCRgalaxy]

Amazing how the interviewer doesn’t seem to understand that her very life and existence is based on the ability of the Earth to grow the food she eats and the water she drinks.

[brianwheeldon]

The interviewer wanted a cosy chat. She is in the position of comfort, why change? Well if we do not change now we are denying our children and their children a safe and healthy future. The purpose of the journalist is to argue by soft denial. A sad reflection of humanity.

[JoeBetro]

20:35 You go sister! United is the way. Roger, I love ya and find you so refreshingly real, but be careful not to fall into arrogance.

[larrytaylor]

I find it hard to believe that the Biggest problem we face is never mentioned
That is if we completely stopped carbon emissions today completely
We would likely not even come close to saving the world as we know it
The pollution we've trapped in our atmosphere over the last century will be heating up and continuing to alter our delicate climate for hundreds of years. That the damage is just now making it difficult for growing crops or staying cool. Changing weather patterns are causing flooding never before seen like currently happening in Asia, China is experiencing record flooding and there forecasting for even more. The damage to crops must be enormous Canada already are seeing crop failures and predicting more. The USA experiencing record Heat Wave gripping the majority of the states siberia's been extremely hot permafrost melting and fires burning year around going unnoticed during cold session Antarctica extremely. Warmer than ever recorded like 80 degrees several times never before seen in those areas and extremes in ocean temperatures not seen without El nino
Many more extremes that I'm sure I'm missing
The point is this isn't going to reverse it self
This will continue to worsen for many many years there is no stopping it. The Earths two major filters for removing C02 from the atmosphere the ocean and the rainforest can't do their jobs anymore because the ocean is to warm and so much of rainforest and forest around globe simply are gone and planting trees will not do much as we have destroyed the ego systems that took millions of years evolve and now Earth's in a confused mess its basically a living organism with each thing effectively taking care and supporting the other.
The 6th extension has begun and as scientist have leaned that all Extinctions it's a pretty fast process once it starts it's don't take long at all .
There is nothing we can do now unfortunately nobody will want to believe that but I challenge you to prove me wrong .
But make sure you take in account that the global population can't be supported without using the system in place now and we can't stay cool without using tons of fossil fuels not even renewable energy can help massive amount of fossil fuels going into creating a system and mining for minerals for battery just two of the obstacles we have if we wasn't already sinking
We are on the Titanic and it's hit the iceberg and we're taking on water fast.
I would like to Thank
(You tube) for helping these killers of this planet by not removing all the climate denial videos and suppressing actual science climate videos exposing the truth. I hope there is a hell for you and you can join the oil & fossil fuel industry along with people like Trump and all other Greedy money hungry elites you are all global wrecking balls responsible for the destruction of earth and everything on it.
I can't help it I've been so frickin depressed for years and I despise the fact that nobody will do a Damm thing about it but keep pretending or like we can change it
PS I would like to thank Roger from Extinction rebellion they are the closest solution that we possibly have a total global reorganization and change can only take place if the system is broken that's every country totally trashing there current government and creating one that works for the Earth so the animals and humans can live