From The Farm in Tennessee, alternative guru Albert Bates rates responses to predictions of doom. Film-maker Anne Macksoud on new movie "The Wisdom to Survive" Plus musical activist Rachelle Van Zanten
Interviews by Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock
Incidental music by Alex Smith
Film clip from "The Wisdom to Survive, Climate Change, Capitalism & Community" olddogdocumentaries.org
Song: "I Fight For Life" Rachelle Van Zanten
Song: "The Canoe Song" by Rachelle Van Zanten
Good break point at 35 minutes 13 seconds for those who need it.
List your alternative speakers and writers - Albert Bates probably knows them all. As a travelling speaker and permaculture teacher at The Farm in Tennessee, Bates brought out a new chart showing responses from "we will find a way with local community" to "why prolong the agony, we are all doomed". We talk about the players in the end game.
Anne Macksoud and film-maker partner John Ankele interviewed many of the same people - plus a lot of young women activists, aboriginal and third world people about the developing climate crisis.
The result is their new film "The Wisdom to Survive, Climate Change, Capitalism & Community". We talk through our options.
From Canada's West Coast, Rachelle Van Zanten went from a world tour (with "Painted Daisies") to her 400 square foot off-grid cabin. Her songs have become anthems for those opposing pipelines, tankers, fracking, and tar sands. It's also damn fine music. We chat, and then spin two tunes.
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