Author: monbiot

Pregnant Silence

It’s about time we discussed the real population crisis.

The agencies supposed to protect the living world have been neutered, and polluters and wildlife destroyers now have a free hand.

A leaked letter from David Cameron offers a remarkable – and terrifying – insight into his mind.

Why does the Welsh government propose this gratuitous act of destruction? It refuses to say.

The UK’s national parks should be redesignated as ecological disaster zones.

Banks and corporations are being liberated from the rule of law, and are ripping the world apart.

In the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far), Indonesia has been blotted out by smoke. And the media.

Britain’s housing crisis won’t end until we face some uncomfortable truths

Fascinating new lines of research suggest that we are good people, tolerating bad things.

The US bombing of a hospital in Afghanistan is just one symptom of comprehensive military failure

The hideous pollution case I stumbled on illustrates our failure to see the harm caused by animal farming.

There may be water on Mars. But is there intelligent life on Earth?

The Ecomodernists launching their manifesto today propose solutions that are both ignorant and brutal.

Pollution, as scandals on both sides of the Atlantic show, is a physical manifestation of corruption.

Yes, we are pro-nuclear, but the proposed Hinkley C plant should be scrapped.

What the secular left could learn from evangelical Christianity.

Living as if seen from the future.

The BBC’s coverage of the countryside is a biased, unquestioning, deferential disgrace.

Where does legitimate business end and organised crime begin?

How I caught a glimpse, through the unlikely medium of roadkill, of what lies beneath.