Waste Colonialism
The UK government is flagrantly flouting its own rules, allowing our scrap tyres to be sent to India for burning.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th January 2019
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Mutually Assured Salvation
A world-changing experiment in London’s poorest borough shows how to break out of our disastrous spiral of alienation.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th January 2019
Testeria
Fearful masculinity harms both men and women. There are better ways of growing up.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th January 2019
Don’t Breathe
Pollution is now the biggest threat to children’s health. So why is it so neglected?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 9th January 2019
The Mind Hackers
Researchers at public universities are developing new ways of shutting down our capacity for independent thought.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 31st December 2018
You Want It Darker?
The remarkable story of how the hard-right Koch brothers funded a Trotskyite splinter group.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th November 2018
Dark money is among the greatest current threats to democracy. It means money spent below the public radar, that seeks to change political outcomes. It enables very rich people and corporations to influence politics without showing their hands.
Slavemasters
The world’s most powerful nations endorsed the Indonesian occupation of West Papua 50 years ago. Now they have a duty to help bring it to an end.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st November 2018
Hopeless Realism
No effective means of stopping climate breakdown is deemed “politically realistic”. So we must change political realities.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th November 2018
In a World of Their Own
By downplaying and misrepresenting our environmental crisis, David Attenborough and the BBC have generated complacency, confusion and ignorance.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 7th Novemeber 2018
An Electrifying Idea
What if we abandoned photosynthesis as the means of producing food, and released most of the world’s surface from agriculture?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 31st October 2018