Author: monbiot

Bring On the Clowns

By selecting obnoxious twerps as its contributors, the media is changing the character of the nation

Capitalism steals from the young and the unborn. It’s time for a new system, that respects their rights

Cars are ruining our lives. We should cut their use by 90% over the next 10 years

Drawing on the successes and failures of the past, we must help young climate strikers to win their existential struggle

Why older people must stand in solidarity with the youth climate strikes.

The government’s refusal to respond to our democratic emergency is one symptom of systemic political failure

Why disaster capitalists are praying for a no deal Brexit.

The UK government is flagrantly flouting its own rules, allowing our scrap tyres to be sent to India for burning.

A world-changing experiment in London’s poorest borough shows how to break out of our disastrous spiral of alienation.

Fearful masculinity harms both men and women. There are better ways of growing up.

Pollution is now the biggest threat to children’s health. So why is it so neglected?

Researchers at public universities are developing new ways of shutting down our capacity for independent thought.

The remarkable story of how the hard-right Koch brothers funded a Trotskyite splinter group.

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.

No effective means of stopping climate breakdown is deemed “politically realistic”. So we must change political realities.

By downplaying and misrepresenting our environmental crisis, David Attenborough and the BBC have generated complacency, confusion and ignorance.

What if we abandoned photosynthesis as the means of producing food, and released most of the world’s surface from agriculture?

When governments abandon us, we must step up

The government’s Agriculture Bill seeks to replace regulation with public money. Who will contest this new protection racket?

The media’s spotlight systematically distorts the way we see the world