Compassion is the answer by George Monbiot - Docu - 2018

Compassion is the answer, according to George Monbiot. How do we overcome increasing alienation, loneliness and ecological calamity? Compassion is the answer. George Monbiot is convinced that a new story is needed to free society from the overpowering efficiency thinking. The influential British thinker George Monbiot has answers on how to get out of this mess: Compassion. We must reinvent our relationship to nature, fellow human beings, community, politics, and especially to ourselves. After 30 years of neoliberalism, we are sick to death. In short, this is the alarmist message from George Monbiot, ecologist, writer and columnist for the English newspaper The Guardian. All crises of the past decades, whether this is the political, financial, ecological or migration crisis, are surpassed by the alienation of modern man. It is lonelier than ever, although it lives in a world of connectivity. And according to George Monbiot, the man is sicker than he thinks. He sees a psychological collapse in the Wester