Author: monbiot

Spirited Away

How the counterculture fell prey to the far-right’s conspiracy theories.

The Conservatives promised that communities could reshape their own towns. As the shocking case of Totnes shows, it’s a con.

Earth systems could tip before 2050. We urgently need more stringent climate targets.

We cannot build our way out of the environmental crisis.

The media’s lust for blood helped march us into the disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It wants us to forget that.

Future corporate profits are officially more important than life on Earth.

Protecting the natural world means creating tomorrow’s ancient habitats.

Do new technologies make autocrats impossible to overthrow?

Our team uncovers the remarkable, but scarcely understood, truth about river pollution.

Our rivers and seas are being transformed into open sewers by greedy business and useless governments.

How the media stoked the climate crisis.

A famine is being forced on the people of Tigray, the scene of one of the world’s greatest environmental success stories.

People who own second homes cause homelessness and community death. Yet the government rewards them with lavish subsidies and tax breaks.

Every new climate pledge is an attempt to distract people from the failed ones it replaces.

The government has gone to extreme lengths to close our borders to refugees and people seeking work, yet has left them wide open to Covid-19.

When we get ripped off by con artists, in most cases we no longer have any recourse. It’s the result of disastrous political choices.

The end of the United Kingdom is a prospect we should welcome.

Far from holding the government to account, as it claims, most of the media was fast asleep while massive scandals brewed.

The Science Museum’s new exhibition on climate breakdown is funded by an oil company. What could possibly go wrong?

How I became a human plague – and stumbled into one of the most astonishing scientific stories I’ve ever encountered.