I Am Still Alive

Possibly a bit over the top – seemingly obssessed as he is with odor – but McIntosh makes good points and it’s a refreshing change of tone from the onslaught of (also great) TED talks we see everywhere.

In this talk I will speak in reference to my new book, “Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition.”

I consider that politics alone is not enough to tackle the scale and depth of the problem that faces us. At root is our addictive consumer mentality. Wants have replaced needs and consumption drives our very identity. Western societies and many others influenced by it have fallen prey to a numbing culture of violence and as part of it, the motivational manipulation of marketing.