A Manchurian Candidate
Liz Truss has been trained and shaped by dark-money lobbyists.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd September 2022
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The Undead
Liz Truss promises to double down on policies that have been completely discredited.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th September 2022
The Coming Hunger
As environmental breakdown threatens to render large parts of the planet unfarmable, how can mass starvation best be averted?
By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 22nd August 2022
This is my response to the open letter from my friend Jyoti Fernandes, published on the website of the Landworkers’ Alliance.
Dear Jyoti,
The Workaround
Without public consultation, the boundaries of freeports have been expanded to cover much of the country. What does this mean?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th August 2022
Unholy Cow
The world’s most damaging farm products? Organic pasture-fed beef and lamb.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th August 2022
Perhaps the most important of all environmental issues is land use. Every hectare of land we use for extractive industries is a hectare that can’t support wild forests, savannahs, wetlands, natural grasslands and other crucial ecosystems. And farming swallows far more land than any other human activity.
Absent Minded
To this government, the duty of care is an abomination.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th August 2022
Streetlife
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods transform people’s lives and rebuild community. Resist the angry men trying to destroy them.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd August 2022
Judgement Call
Bereavement is bad enough, without a predatory phone company refusing to cancel a dead person’s account.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th July 2022
My Demands of Vodafone
The steps the company should take to change the way it closes accounts.
By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.comm 25th July 2022
Days of Rage
System change is – and has always been – our only realistic means of defending the living planet.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th July 2022