court nominee clarence thomas. televised hearings that featured blockbuster testimony from professor anita hill who detailed allegations of workplace sexual harassment by judge thomas who was her supervisor at two government agencies. after approximately three months of working there, he asked me to go out socially with him. what happened next and tlling the world about it are the two most difficult experiences of my life. but when i was asked by a representative of this committee to report my experience, i felt that i had to tell the truth. the hearing sparked a national debate about sexual harassment and a time when such harassment went largely ignored and unpunished. it also brought attention to a troubling dynamic, the senate judiciary committee led by then senator joe biden was composed solely of old white guys. sharply and sometimes rudely questioning a black law professor about what happened to her. no women serve on that committee in 1991. well, that was about to
and surrounded by fear, also. i mean, it s not easy to see how we re going to get through this century, let alone those that follow. your latest book, regenesis, essentially describes the way we produce food around the world as perhaps the single most damaging thing we are doing to the natural world. and yet we all need to eat. mm hm. and thanks to farming, almost all of us can sustain ourselves with decent amounts of food. why do you see this as such a problem? well, this is the great dilemma we face. i mean, it s notjust a question of seeing it as a problem, there is a huge weight of empirical evidence showing that farming is by far the greatest cause of habitat destruction, of wildlife loss, of extinction, of land use, which is perhaps the most important environmental metric of all, of soil degradation, of freshwater use, and one of the greatest causes of climate breakdown, of water pollution and of air pollution. so it s notjust a matter of opinion, this is the industry w
the area s currently under russia s control. moscow and kyiv accuse each other of shelling the site. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. we humans face a series of interlinked existential challenges. how do we feed a global population heading toward 10 billion? can it be done without degrading ecosystems and exacerbating climate change to a calamitous extent? well, my guest today, the writer and environmental campaigner george monbiot, has spent decades addressing these questions and framing radical answers. why are so many politicians and voters seemingly unwilling to listen? george monbiot, welcome to hardtalk. thanks, stephen. you have been a campaigner and writer on environmental issues for decades, warning about the toxic relationship between human beings and our planet. i just wonder how you prioritise? how do you decide where to focus? mm, it s very hard. i mean, every week when i m writing a column for the guardian, for in
d.c. conventional wisdom. the summer beginning with democrats almost fatalistic about losing the house. here are today s headlines. a shift in trends showing democrats daring to dream, the times reported on the rebound. the post reporting democrats showing momentum in these recent special elections, which is hard data. the d.c. website axios reports on the democrats now stunning turnaround. now, first, this is classic washington a narrative zigs and zags. everything gets exaggerated. there s a lot of self-interested reasons that people need to make things so histrionic. i can also tell you tonight, the reason this is the top story here where we try not to be histrionic is because there is hard data showing democrats improving. and at this point they might start asking themselves, well, how did we get here? they may ask themselves, where does that midterm highway go? same as it ever was. that s of course how the talking heads and david byrne memorably put it. the numbers
george monbiot, welcome to hardtalk. thanks, stephen. you have been a campaigner and writer on environmental issues for decades, warning about the toxic relationship between human beings and our planet. i just wonder how you prioritise? how do you decide where to focus? mm, it s very hard. i mean, every week when i m writing a column for the guardian, for instance, or making a video, i have a choice of about 20 different topics that i could latch onto. it s very frightening. i mean, to be environmentally aware, to have an environmental education is, as the great writer aldo leopold put it, to live in a world of wounds. you re surrounded by grief, you re surrounded by the pain of what you re seeing, and surrounded by fear, also. i mean, it s not easy to see how we re going to get through this century, let alone those that follow. your latest book, regenesis, essentially describes the way we produce food around the world as perhaps the single most damaging thing we are doing to