Author: monbiot

A Grand Plan to Do Nothing

The government’s 25 Year Environment Plan is a work of cowardice

If you want to see real no-platforming, look at the newspapers

To be aware of the wonders of the living planet is to take on an unbearable burden of grief

This is the question everyone should be attending to – where is the food going to come from?

How the waste and inefficiency of neoliberalism attacks our children’s health

Economic growth will destroy everything. There’s no way of greening it – we need a new system.

How the guardians of nationhood conspire in its destruction.

How a chemical weapons attack in Syria spawned a shameful series of conspiracy theories

My adventures in the golden realm.

“We do not need to change human nature. We need to reveal it.”.

The Sheffield tree massacre is one result of the monstrous, impenetrable officialdom that neoliberalism creates

The scale and speed of environmental collapse is beyond imagination.

Our representative democracy is scarcely worthy of the name. 21st Century politics demands a more participatory system

Some radical ideas for reshaping the economy.

We should use the political space being opened by the Labour resurgence to develop a new, participatory economy

Farming animals is as unsustainable as mining coal.

Hope lies with a great, neglected sector of the economy, through which we can create a system that is neither capitalist nor state communist.

Who is the world’s leading environmental vandal? The answer may surprise you.

The demand for perpetual economic growth, and the collective madness it provokes, leads inexorably to environmental collapse

Here are my proposals for a new politics, designed for the 21st Century