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Articles from George Monbiot

The Commoner-Kings

May 12, 2025 - 17:17 -- Admin

Dartmoor National Park is not dying; it is being killed, and these are the killers.

By George Monbiot, adapted from a Bluesky thread, 11th May 2025.

This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity.

Pasturised

May 12, 2025 - 13:52 -- Admin

The cottagecore, romantic path to starvation and environmental breakdown.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2025

Arrested Over Tea and Biscuits

April 7, 2025 - 20:31 -- Admin

It’s not disruption that’s being prosecuted in this country. It’s dissent.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd April 2025

The faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.

A New World

April 2, 2025 - 15:44 -- Admin

You can’t do it differently until you imagine it differently.

By George Monbiot, adapted from a BlueSky thread, 2nd April 2025

One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools – neoliberalism and fascism – it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives.

RIP FFS

March 24, 2025 - 01:54 -- Admin

As deliberately-contaminated sewage sludge is spread on farmland, it feels as if humanity is on a suicide mission.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  21st March 2025

If humanity has an epitaph, it might read something like this: “Knackered by the things we missed.” It is true that several existential threats are widely known and widely discussed. But some of the greatest dangers we face appear on almost no one’s radar.

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