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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.52,0:00:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would any sane person think that dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.83,0:00:12.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or that composting would have ended slavery
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.95,0:00:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or brought about the eight-hour workday,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.22,0:00:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or that chopping wood and carrying water
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.52,0:00:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.42,0:00:25.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or that dancing around a fire
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.19,0:00:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would have helped pass the Voting Rights Act of 1957
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.71,0:00:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.61,0:00:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then why now, with all the world at stake,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.30,0:00:38.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do so many people retreat into these
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.31,0:00:40.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,entirely personal “solutions”?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.18,0:00:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of the problem is that we’ve been victims
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.08,0:00:53.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a campaign of systematic misdirection.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.47,0:00:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.94,0:01:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have taught us to substitute acts of personal lifestyle choices
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.97,0:01:03.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for organized political resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.92,0:01:07.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same is true for spiritual enlightenment.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.47,0:01:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not organized political resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.14,0:01:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An Inconvenient Truth helped to raise consciousness
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.56,0:01:18.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about global warming,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.98,0:01:21.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but did you notice that all of the solutions presented
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.04,0:01:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had to do with personal consumption—
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.18,0:01:27.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,changing lightbulbs, inflating tires, driving half as much—
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.66,0:01:30.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and had nothing to do with shifting power
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.15,0:01:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,away from corporations
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.03,0:01:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or stopping the growth economy
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.76,0:01:35.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is destroying the planet?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.33,0:01:38.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Al Gore) “Each one of us is a cause of global warming,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.98,0:01:41.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but each of us can make choices to change that
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.69,0:01:45.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the things we buy, the electricity we use, the cars we drive,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.39,0:01:50.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can make choices to bring our individual carbon emissions to zero."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.29,0:01:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even if every person in the United States
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.88,0:01:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did everything the movie suggested,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.28,0:01:57.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,U.S. carbon emissions would fall
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.49,0:01:59.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by only 22%,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.49,0:02:01.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and scientific consensus is that emissions
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.73,0:02:04.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,must be reduced by at least 75%
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.10,0:02:06.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,worldwide.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.89,0:02:10.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or let’s talk water.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.05,0:02:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We so often hear that
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.05,0:02:12.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world is running out of water.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.74,0:02:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People are dying from lack of water,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.84,0:02:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rivers are dewatered from lack of water.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.97,0:02:19.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And while this is true,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.48,0:02:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we’re told that because of this,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.90,0:02:24.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we must take shorter showers.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.90,0:02:26.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But see the disconnect?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.57,0:02:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I take showers, I’m responsible
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.84,0:02:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for drawing down aquifers?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.84,0:02:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, no.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.51,0:02:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More that 90% of the water used by humans
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.49,0:02:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is used by agriculture and industry.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.35,0:02:40.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The remaining 10% is split
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.98,0:02:42.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between municipalities
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.83,0:02:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and actual living, breathing, individual humans.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.99,0:02:50.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Collectively, municipal golf courses use as much water
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.08,0:02:52.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as municipal human beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.07,0:02:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s insane.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.99,0:02:59.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People, both human people and fish people,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.04,0:03:01.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aren’t dying because the world
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.40,0:03:03.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is running out of water.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.22,0:03:04.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re dying
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.06,0:03:06.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the water is being stolen.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.45,0:03:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, let’s talk energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.09,0:03:15.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kirkpatrick Sale summarized it well.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.49,0:03:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“For the past 15 years
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.86,0:03:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the story has been the same every year.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.00,0:03:20.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Individual consumption—
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.42,0:03:22.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,residential, by private car, and so on—
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.81,0:03:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is never more than about a quarter
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.50,0:03:26.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all consumption.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.25,0:03:29.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The vast majority is commercial, industrial,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.27,0:03:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,corporate, by agribusiness and government.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.72,0:03:33.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[He forgot the military.]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.21,0:03:35.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, even if we all took up cycling
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.25,0:03:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wood stoves,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.70,0:03:38.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would have a negligible impact
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.59,0:03:40.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on energy use, global warming,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.33,0:03:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and atmospheric pollution."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.67,0:03:51.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or let’s talk waste.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.83,0:03:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2005, per-capita
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.83,0:03:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,municipal waste production
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.02,0:03:57.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(basically everything that’s put out at the curb)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.84,0:04:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the United States was about 1,660 pounds.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.26,0:04:04.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s say you’re a die-hard,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.66,0:04:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simple-living activist,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.29,0:04:07.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you reduce this number to zero.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.50,0:04:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You recycle everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.35,0:04:12.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You bring cloth bags shopping.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.90,0:04:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You fix your toaster.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.46,0:04:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your toes poke out of your old tennis shoes.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.48,0:04:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’re not done yet, though.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.59,0:04:20.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since municipal waste
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.59,0:04:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,includes not just residential waste,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.76,0:04:24.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also waste from government offices
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.33,0:04:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and businesses,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.60,0:04:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you march down to those offices,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.23,0:04:29.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,waste reduction pamphlets in hand,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.35,0:04:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and convince them to cut down on their waste
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.99,0:04:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enough to eliminate your share of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.16,0:04:37.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I’ve got some bad news.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.27,0:04:38.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The municipal waste
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.23,0:04:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accounts for only 3 percent
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.60,0:04:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of total waste production
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.16,0:04:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.87,0:04:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to be clear.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.89,0:04:54.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m not saying that we shouldn’t live simply.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.42,0:04:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I live reasonably simply myself,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.17,0:05:00.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I don’t pretend that not buying much,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.73,0:05:03.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or not driving much, or not having kids,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.24,0:05:05.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a powerful political act,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.05,0:05:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or that it’s deeply revolutionary,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.10,0:05:08.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it isn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.95,0:05:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Personal change does not equal social change.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.21,0:05:15.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how, then,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.21,0:05:17.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and especially with all the world at stake,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.99,0:05:19.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have we come to accept
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.39,0:05:21.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these utterly insufficient responses?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.11,0:05:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think part of it is that we’re in a double bind.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.26,0:05:29.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A double bind is when you’re given
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.59,0:05:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,multiple options,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.09,0:05:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but no matter what option you choose,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.74,0:05:34.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you lose,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.16,0:05:36.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and withdrawal is not an option.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.82,0:05:39.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At this point it should be pretty easy
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.97,0:05:41.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to recognize that every action
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.69,0:05:43.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,involving the industrial economy
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.13,0:05:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is destructive,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.45,0:05:45.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we shouldn’t pretend that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.98,0:05:48.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,solar photovoltaics, for example,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.40,0:05:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exempt us from this.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.72,0:05:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They still require mining
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.79,0:05:52.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and transportation infrastructures
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.79,0:05:55.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at every point in the production process.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.38,0:05:56.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same can be said
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.60,0:05:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for every other so-called green technology.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.35,0:06:05.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we choose option one—
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.37,0:06:06.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we avidly participate
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.37,0:06:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the industrial economy—
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.36,0:06:10.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we may think in the short term we win
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.90,0:06:12.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we may accumulate wealth,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.93,0:06:14.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the marker of so-called success
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.55,0:06:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.05,0:06:17.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we lose,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.76,0:06:20.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because in so doing we give up our empathy,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.29,0:06:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our animal humanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.43,0:06:23.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we really lose because
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.81,0:06:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,industrial civilization is killing the planet,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.20,0:06:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means everyone loses.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.01,0:06:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we choose the “alternative” option
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.61,0:06:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of living more simply,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.01,0:06:34.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thus causing less harm,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.52,0:06:36.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but still not stopping the industrial economy
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.44,0:06:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from killing the planet,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.08,0:06:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we may in the short term think we win
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.40,0:06:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we got to feel pure,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.20,0:06:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we didn’t even have to give up
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.36,0:06:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of our empathy,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.20,0:06:47.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just enough to justify not stopping the horror,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.43,0:06:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but once again we really lose,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.20,0:06:51.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because industrial civilization
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.56,0:06:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is killing the planet,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.04,0:06:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means everyone still loses.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.74,0:07:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The third option,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.18,0:07:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,acting decisively to stop the industrial economy,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.96,0:07:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is very scary for a number of reasons,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.70,0:07:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including but not restricted to the fact that
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.14,0:07:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we’d lose some of the luxuries,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.14,0:07:13.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for example, electricity
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.49,0:07:16.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to which we’ve grown very accustomed,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.35,0:07:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the fact that those in power
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.21,0:07:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might try to kill us if we seriously impede
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.18,0:07:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their ability to exploit the world—
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.04,0:07:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,none of which alters the fact that it’s a better option than a dead planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.72,0:07:30.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any option is a better option than a dead planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.01,0:07:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Besides being ineffective at causing
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.14,0:07:40.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sorts of changes necessary
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.72,0:07:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stop this culture from killing the planet,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.99,0:07:44.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are at least four other problems
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.49,0:07:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with perceiving simple living as a political act
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.03,0:07:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as opposed to living simply
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.16,0:07:52.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that’s what you want to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.16,0:07:54.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first is that it’s predicated on the flawed notion
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.46,0:07:56.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that humans inevitably harm their landbase.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.90,0:07:59.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Simple living as a political act
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.62,0:08:01.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consists solely of harm reduction,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.95,0:08:03.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ignoring the fact that humans
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.71,0:08:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can help the Earth as well as harm it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.84,0:08:08.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can rehabilitate streams,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.98,0:08:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can get rid of noxious invasives,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.40,0:08:13.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can remove dams,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.44,0:08:15.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can disrupt a political system
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.54,0:08:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tilted towards the rich
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.78,0:08:19.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as an extractive economic system,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.79,0:08:22.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can destroy the industrial economy
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.07,0:08:24.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is destroying the real, physical world.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.94,0:08:38.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second problem,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.29,0:08:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is another big one,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.28,0:08:42.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that it incorrectly assigns blame
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.35,0:08:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the individual, and most especially
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.03,0:08:48.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to individuals who are particularly powerless,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.74,0:08:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of to those who actually wield power
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.32,0:08:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this system
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.42,0:08:54.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to the system itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.91,0:09:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The third problem
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.24,0:09:04.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that it accepts capitalism’s redefinition of us
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.39,0:09:06.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from citizens to consumers.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.92,0:09:09.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By accepting this redefinition,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.24,0:09:12.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we reduce our potential forms of resistance
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.73,0:09:14.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to consuming and not consuming.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.78,0:09:18.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But citizens have a much wider range
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.95,0:09:20.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of available resistance tactics,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.78,0:09:22.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including voting or not voting,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.63,0:09:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,running for office, pamphleting, boycotting,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.60,0:09:27.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,organizing, lobbying, protesting,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.16,0:09:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, when a government becomes destructive of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.44,0:09:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have the right to alter or abolish it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.51,0:09:41.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fourth problem
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.83,0:09:43.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that the endpoint of the logic
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.59,0:09:45.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,behind simple living as a political act
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.15,0:09:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is suicide.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.17,0:09:50.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If every act within an industrial economy
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.35,0:09:51.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is destructive,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.29,0:09:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if we want to stop this destruction,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.59,0:09:56.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if we are unwilling or unable to question,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.30,0:09:57.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much less destroy,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.49,0:09:58.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the intellectual, moral,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.71,0:10:00.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,economic, and physical infrastructures
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.80,0:10:02.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that cause every act
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.13,0:10:03.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within an industrial economy
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.47,0:10:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be destructive,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.80,0:10:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we can easily come to believe
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.02,0:10:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we will cause
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.02,0:10:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the least destruction possible
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.88,0:10:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we are dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.44,0:10:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The good news is
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.93,0:10:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there are other options.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.80,0:10:19.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can follow the examples of brave activists
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.51,0:10:22.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who lived through the difficult times I mentioned—
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.36,0:10:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nazi Germany, Tsarist Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.96,0:10:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,antebellum United States—
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.09,0:10:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who did far more
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.58,0:10:31.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than manifest a form of personal purity.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.58,0:10:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They actively opposed the injustices
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.82,0:10:35.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that surrounded them.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.93,0:10:37.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can follow the example
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.27,0:10:38.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of those who remembered
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.39,0:10:39.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the role of an activist
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.65,0:10:40.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not to navigate systems
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.95,0:10:42.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of oppressive power
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.35,0:10:43.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with as much personal integrity
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.73,0:10:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as possible,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.56,0:10:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but rather to confront
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.68,0:10:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and take down those systems.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.100,0:10:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s get to work.