Net Curtains
Industrial fishing is
the biggest threat to our blue planet. So why don’t we act on it?
By George Monbiot,
published in the Guardian 9th May 2019
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Landlocked
Bullying and intimidation dominate the
British countryside, as landowners and shooters assert their power.
By George Monbiot, published in the
Guardian 1st May 2019
The Problem is Capitalism
It is a weapon pointed at the living world. We
urgently need to develop a new system.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th
April 2019
For most of my adult life, I’ve railed against
“corporate capitalism”, “consumer capitalism” and “crony capitalism”. It took
me a long time to see that the problem is not the adjective, but the noun.
No More Excuses
No one is
coming to save us. Only rebellion will prevent an environmental apocalypse
By George
Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th April 2019
Had we put
as much effort into preventing environmental catastrophe as we’ve spent on making
excuses for inaction, we would have solved it by now. Everywhere I look, I see
people engaged in furious attempts to fend off the moral challenge it presents.
Quantomania
Neoliberalism
promised to save us from bureaucracy. Instead, it has delivered a mad, semi-privatised
authoritarianism
By George Monbiot,
published in the Guardian 10th April 2019
Rewild the World
We launch a new campaign to allow ecosystems to recover on a massive scale, drawing down carbon from the atmosphere
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd April
2019
Law of Nature
Those who destroy the living world should be charged with the international crime of ecocide
By George
Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th March 2019
Bring On the Clowns
By selecting obnoxious twerps as its contributors, the media is changing the character of the nation
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian,
23rd March 2019
Intergenerational Theft
Capitalism steals from the young and the
unborn. It’s time for a new system, that respects their rights
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 15th
March 2019
The young people taking to the streets are
right: their future is being stolen. The economy is an environmental pyramid
scheme, dumping its liabilities on the young and the unborn. Its current growth
depends on intergenerational theft.
Auto-Destruct
Cars are ruining our lives. We should cut their use by 90% over the next 10 years
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th March 2019
It’s the last straw. Parked outside the hospital doors is a minibus with the engine running. The driver is playing on his mobile phone. The fumes are blowing into the atrium. I step up to his window and ask him to turn the engine off. He does so, grumpily. Then I notice he’s wearing a health service uniform.