As our wildlife and ecosystems collapse, remembering is a radical act.
Author: monbiot
Sunset for Liberal Democracy
The denial of popular sovereignty by mainstream leaders allows demagogues like Trump to pose as democratic champions.
Butchery of the Planet
Defending the living world and its people requires a shift from meat to a plant-based diet
Other People’s Money
Make bosses pay for the disasters they cause
Price Less
The “natural capital” agenda is morally wrong, intellectually vacuous, and most of all counter-productive
The Oxytocin Tent
The wonderful things I learnt during my treatment for prostate cancer
Payments for Not Mugging Old Ladies
This is George Monbiot’s response to the government consultation document Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit
Close Harmony
Why loneliness afflicts us – and how we should address it, in words and music
The Mess We’re In
How did neoliberalism happen and what do we do about it?
How to Really Take Back Control
Our multiple crises, and how we can escape them
Replacing Neoliberalism
A new politics needs a new political narrative
Betrayal
Those who claim to defend the national interest are bent on its destruction
Towering Injustice
Those who died in the Grenfell Tower fire were killed in an official war against public protections
The Day I Became a Vegan
The extraordinary sequence of events that changed my diet
A Corporation in Human Form
What drives Donald Trump – and the rest of the psychopathic political class
Ignoble Prize
If the Nobel Peace Prize means anything, it should be stripped from Aung San Suu Kyi for her complicity in the massacres in Myanmar/Burma
Putting the World to Rights
How to fix our broken politics
What Makes Us Human
The extraordinary, under-recognised aspects of human nature
Aquamancy
How natural flood management could save homes and lives downstream
The Utter Weirdness of the British Countryside
And why rewilding makes sense here