Author: monbiot

Testeria

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

We need to get embarrassing about climate breakdown

How an animal welfare charity ended up endorsing seal killing – and what this says about our age

How one young woman broke down the gates of knowledge

The problem is not plastic. It is consumerism.

The crucial decisions about major infrastructure are made behind closed doors.

In 1976, we ate more than we do today. So why are we fatter?

Dark money is undermining our democracies, and it’s never darker than when channelled through lobby groups masquerading as think tanks

The little-known history of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory in a New York primary hints at a coming transformation in US politics

As state bodies are dismantled, corporations are freed to rip the living world apart