Author: monbiot

Embarrassment of Riches

For the sake of life on Earth, we should set an upper limit on the money any person can amass.

Neoliberalism has stalled, so the fanatics in government are using Brexit to revive it.

History will be kind to the protesters who plan to stop flights at Heathrow airport. They are climate heroes.

Thanks to shocking failures of government, every tree, almost everywhere, is now threatened by killer plagues

The livestock industry is trashing the living world, and free-range, pasture-fed meat is the worst offender.

In the midst of climate breakdown, governments around the world are funding and protecting the fossil fuel industry

Why are so many nations now led by extravagant buffoons? Because the nature of capitalism has changed.

Governments have built a heaven for landlords and a hell for tenants. It’s time to change the system.

As I’ve found to my cost, the billionaire press seeks to kill change before it happens.

Shell is not the green saviour it claims to be, but a planetary death machine

Land Rover’s proposals that we use its SUVs for urban safaris shows how cars have been licensed to damage our lives.

Our toxic political system produces toxic leaders. We should design a system that rewards kindness and honesty.

Our new report puts forward transformative proposals for taking back control of the land.

Industrial fishing is the biggest threat to our blue planet. So why don’t we act on it?

Bullying and intimidation dominate the British countryside, as landowners and shooters assert their power.

It is a weapon pointed at the living world. We urgently need to develop a new system.

No one is coming to save us. Only rebellion will prevent an environmental apocalypse

Neoliberalism promised to save us from bureaucracy. Instead, it has delivered a mad, semi-privatised authoritarianism

We launch a new campaign to allow ecosystems to recover on a massive scale, drawing down carbon from the atmosphere

Those who destroy the living world should be charged with the international crime of ecocide