A Tyrant’s Power
If the government’s amendments to the Police Bill are passed, we are on the path to authoritarianism.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 1st December 2021
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Cleaning Up
Thanks to disgraceful government failures, an illegal waste-dumping mafia is now burning and burying millions of tonnes of dangerous materials.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th November 2021
Domino Theory
Our last, best hope of averting systemic environmental collapse is to use the peculiarities of complex systems to trigger cascading political regime shifts.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th November 2021.
Wealth Curse
Why do we tolerate the massive environmental impacts of the very rich?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th November 2021
Looting By Other Means
What the rich nations owe the poor is not climate aid or climate loans. It’s climate reparations.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th November 2021
The story of the past 500 years can be crudely summarised as follows. A handful of European nations, which had mastered both the art of violence and advanced seafaring technology, used these faculties to invade other territories and seize their land, labour and resources.
Groundtruthed
Almost everything being said by powerful governments at COP26 is a distraction from the crucial task: keeping fossil fuels in the ground.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd November 2021
Surface Tension
Our survival depends on piercing the glassy surface of distraction, and ceasing to obey.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th October 2021
There is a myth about human beings that withstands all evidence. It’s that we always put our survival first. This is true of other species. When confronted by an impending threat, such as winter, they invest great resources into avoiding or withstanding it: migrating or hibernating, for example. Humans are a different matter.
Miracle of Reduction
To avert environmental disaster, we need sudden and drastic change. Impossible? No, it has been done before.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th October 2021
Baying Mob
Gangs of thugs rampage through the countryside. Yet the police look the other way, and the government does nothing.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th October 2021
Something is going badly wrong in the countryside. For years, despite abundant video evidence, bloodsports enthusiasts have intimidated and attacked people who criticise and seek to monitor them, with apparent impunity.
Fire Front
Destroying the world’s living systems and draining its wealth are not perversions of capitalism. They are capitalism.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th October 2021