If we want people to engage with the living world, we should stop using such constipated terms to describe our relationship to it.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 9th August 2017
If Moses had promised the Israelites a land flowing with mammary secretions and insect vomit, would they have followed him into Canaan? Though this means milk and honey, I doubt it.
Electric cars address only a small part of the problem – we need to rethink the whole crazy transport system.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 2nd August 2017
A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the twenty-first century?
A toxic ideology rules the world – of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better world.
Politics, Equality, Nature
Where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it
Global trade once made us rich. Now it unleashes a full-spectrum assault on our well-being.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th July 2017
How a secretive network built around a Nobel prizewinner set out to curtail our freedoms
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th July 2017
The Lake District’s world heritage status reveals a widespread betrayal of the living world, by both conservation groups and the UN
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th July 2017
Unesco’s tragicomic aversion to public engagement.
By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 12th July 2017
This is supporting material for my column on the Lake District’s acquisition of World Heritage status, that will be published on this site under the title Lie of the Land.
The public inquiry into Grenfell Tower will be a farce unless it examines the long-running assault on public protections.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th July 2017
We don’t allow defendants in court cases to select the charges on which they will be tried. So why should the government set the terms of a public inquiry into its own failings? We don’t allow criminal suspects to vet the trial judge. Why should the government approve the inquiry’s chair?
Brexit should be halted until we know who paid for the Leave vote
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th June 2017
Should the EU referendum be annulled? For the past year I’ve been arguing that this would mean defying a democratic decision – even if it was informed by lies. Democracy is not negotiable.