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The new political story that could change everything

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    Do you feel trapped
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    in a broken economic model?
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    A model that's trashing the living world
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    and threatens the lives
    of our descendants?
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    A model that excludes billions of people
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    while making a handful unimaginably rich?
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    That sorts us into winners and loser,
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    and then blames the losers
    for their misfortune?
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    Welcome to neoliberalism,
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    the zombie doctrine
    that never seems to die,
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    however comprehensively it is discredited.
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    Now, you might have imagined
    that the Financial Crisis of 2008
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    would have led to the collapse
    of neoliberalism.
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    After all, it exposed
    its central features,
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    which were deregulating,
    business and finance,
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    tearing down public protections,
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    throwing us into extreme
    competition with each other,
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    as, well, just a little bit flawed.
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    And intellectually, it did collapse.
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    But still, it dominates our lives.
Title:
The new political story that could change everything
Speaker:
George Monbiot
Description:

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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
15:15
  • at 4:59 :
    "labor and conservatives" may be "Labour and Conservatives", refering to two political parties in UK.

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