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A massive new road scheme will solve precisely nothing, while costing the Earth. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24 th June 2025 There appear to be two main determinants of what ...
Archive of his syndicated column about international and British politics and issues, arranged by topic.
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Earth systems are being rushed towards their tipping points by governments that offer us nothing but chaos. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 31 st October 2023 Can you see it yet? The ...
Farmers’ protests are being embraced by the far right. The precedents are chilling. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19 th January 2024 When environmental activists calling for less ...
Advertising and consumerism dull our capacity for empathy. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th November 2013. Guilt is good. It’s the feature that distinguishes the rest of the ...
A New Politics for an Age of Crisis By George Monbiot. Published by Verso Books. What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the twenty-first century? A toxic ideology rules the world – ...
On both sides of the Atlantic, powerful interests seem determined to trigger the collapse of life on Earth. Why? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 6 th July 2022 It feels like the end game.
It’s because the climate crisis is now visible to everyone that governments are giving the fossil fuel industry everything it demands. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1 st August 2023 To ...
The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 22nd November 2004 If human beings were without sin, we would still live in an ...
Predatory corporations are making a mockery of natural climate solutions, as they grab land and bamboozle the public. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26 th January 2022 There is nothing ...