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
Palestinians, two states for two people palestinians, two states for two people. Let me be clear, none of these people. Let me be clear, none of these partnerships are about containing any country, they are atrout containing any country, they are about a containing any country, they are about a positive vision for our shared about a positive vision for our shared future. When it comes to china, shared future. When it comes to china, i shared future. When it comes to china, i want to be clear and consistent. We seek to responsibly manage consistent. We seek to responsibly manage competition between our countries manage competition between our countries so it does not take into conflict countries so it does not take into conflict i countries so it does not take into conflict. I have said we are for tierisking, conflict. I have said we are for de risking, not decoupling with china de risking, not decoupling with china we de risking, not decoupling with china. We will push back on aggressi
At play here. There is no real Common Ground yet found between the labour and the management. The labour is asking for a Wage Increase of about 36 . The management has offered about 20 . So there is a big gap between the two sides. The Labour Unions have thrown out some almost fantastical wants such as a return to a normal Pension System and even four day work week. These are kind of real outliers there in the Global Industry that would take the unionised American Workers into the kind of Uncharted Territory. Ii into the kind of Uncharted Territory territory. If you bring and aaent territory. If you bring and agent perspective, territory. If you bring and agent perspective, whatl territory. If you bring and i agent perspective, what are territory. If you bring and agent perspective, what are the things that have been done differently here for you to make any comparisons . 0ut we drove those comparisons as a strike lays out . For background, strike lays out . For background, what l stri
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in the country s faltering property sector. that means that china s credit rating is at risk of a downgrade. the government in beijing is rumoured to be considering providing more financial support for property developers including evergrande and country garden which are both billions of dollars in debt. earlier i spoke to janet mui, head of market analysis at rbc brewin dolphin. i asked her whether this suggests things are getting worse for the world s second largest economy? this is a reminder of what investors already know which is a slowing economy and a downturn in the property sector, and the government is going back to the old way, they want to reduce debt in this estimate but it is proving to be very difficult, so the stimulus measures are what is worrying moody s. they think it will raise the debt level in the economy. so, it isjust a reminder. it does not change too much what investors already think about china. a lot of people said beijing should have done more