Circle of Life
By reframing the economy, Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics changes our view of who we are and where we stand.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th April 2017
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The Problem With Freedom
Freedom is used as the excuse for ripping down public protections on behalf of the very rich.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th April 2017
Scot Free
Why would Scotland wish to be tethered to the political wasteland south of the border?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th March 2017
Here is the question the people of Scotland will face in the next independence referendum: when England falls out of the boat like a block of concrete, do you want your foot tied to it?
Use IT or Lose it
Digital technologies could be used to destroy democracy, or to save it.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th March 2017
Has a digital coup begun? Is big data being used, in the US and the UK, to create personalised political advertising, to bypass our rational minds and alter the way we vote? The short answer is probably not. Or not yet.
Car Sick
A short, simple factsheet on the impacts of traffic pollution on children’s health
By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 5th March 2017
I wrote this short factsheet for a local school suffering high levels of air pollution, that are caused in part by the parents, sometimes driving their children just 100 metres up the road. Part of the problem is that many people are unaware of the link between pollution and health issues.
Screened Out
For some of those immersed in virtual worlds, everything loses its meaning – even racism and fascism.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st March 2017
Everything is possible. Nothing is possible. Nothing hurts any more, until the consequences crash through the screen. Immersed almost permanently in virtual worlds, we cannot check what we are told against tangible reality. Is it any wonder that we live in a post-truth era, when we are bereft of experience?
Factory Outlet
My (very controversial) column on the lives for which the schooling system prepares our children.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th February 2017
In the future, if you want a job, you must be as unlike a machine as possible: creative, critical and socially skilled. So why are children being taught to behave like machines?
All Together Now
This is how to stop demagogues and extremists: rebuild community.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th February 2017
Without community, politics is dead. But communities have been scattered like dust in the wind. At work, at home, both practically and imaginatively, we are atomised.
Primal Thrill
Kayaking with basking sharks provides a glimpse of the wonders we could experience if our seas are rewilded.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th February 2017
I believe we possess a ghost psyche: a set of capacities that helped secure our survival in more dangerous times, but that are now vestigial. I picture this as a seam of intense emotion, buried so deeply in our minds that we can seldom find it.
Dark Arts
How a dark money network is taking power on both sides of the Atlantic.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd February 2017
It took corporate America a while to warm to Donald Trump. Some of his positions, especially on trade, horrified business leaders. Many of them favoured Ted Cruz or Scott Walker. But once he had secured the nomination, the big money began to recognise an unprecedented opportunity.