Roger Hallam
The Disruptor
Contrarian and drawn to the edge; challenges the settled answer.
Roger Hallam is a prominent activist focused on climate change and civil disobedience. This interview reveals his belief in the necessity of disruption and emotional mobilization to confront political inaction on existential crises.
“A website just up oil. There's various sort of websites, it's easy if you're in the audience, you go on the website, you sign up, and there's a whole bunch of practical details, right? The fundamental point is making that decision to enter into that process.”
“No, no, no, no. What I mean is that let me tell you what the other side of the world is, that a will that you cannot say, right? Because that's one of the reasons you don't want to go to this other world, right? There's another world out there, which is a world of acting upon your fundamental belief.”
“Motive Matez Absolutely don't get me wrong, right? What happened in the Holocaust was an obscenity beyond words because there was a direct motive to kill. But as you well know, right, and as an illegal person would say, is there's two elements to a crime, right? Does the scale of the crime and the intentionality?”
“So I disagree with what you just said. I think it is about you, and it's about the audience. So one of the things you learn about how to persuade people or how to create mobilization is about centering things on the actual moment, this moment, right? We have a moment here. I'm talking to you, you're talking to me.”
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson — The Roger Hallam One
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