The Green Lie (2018)

Werner Boote: Self

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• [first lines] 

  Werner Boote : I am told that I can save the world. The orangutans, the dolphins, the ocean, the rain forest, and even humankind. All I gave to do is buy 'sustainable' and 'fair' products. But that is a lie.

• Werner Boote : The question is: how do we need to deal with green lies?

  Noam Chomsky : To recognize that the proposals may be worthwhile. So maybe it's good not to use plastig bags; the oceans are getting full of them. Good. But if that is being proposed by a powerful institution with the intention of showing you how nice and benevolent they are, then reject it. Follow the proposal but reject the propaganda.

• Werner Boote : [referring to Chomsky's proposal, or dream, of a democratized economy and power systems under public control]  Do you think it's something that definitely will come, that's just a matter of time?

  Noam Chomsky : No. Not definitely at all. What's likely to come, as current tendencies continue, is essentially the destruction of the possibilities for organized civilized life. And not in the far future.