Author: monbiot

Falling in Love Again

Rebuilding our relationship with the natural world can re-animate our own lives, as well as the ecosystem.

Breaking Faith

The European Union is becoming ever harder for progressives to love. Is it time to get out?

Disinventing Democracy

The assault on Greece is just the latest episode in a long history of shutting down choice on behalf of the financial elite.

Common Purpose

What better symbol of a regenerating Scotland could there be than a new network of national parks?

Curb Your Malthusiasm

Vilification of the unemployed as scroungers and skivers has a long and grisly heritage.

Channelling the Joy

In defending the natural world, we should be honest about our motivations – it’s love that drives us, not money.

China Syndrome

We should stop recycling the old “Yellow Peril” myth. The people most hostile to action on climate change are American and British, not Chinese.

Work-Force

Surrender your freedom, avoid daylight, live to work, and you too could join a toxic, paranoid elite.

The Abuses of Enchantment

The cruelties of factory farming shelter behind a fairytale image, promoted by advertisers and children’s authors.

A Prehistory of Violence

It now looks as if the greatest mass extinction on Earth – 250 million years ago – was caused by fossil fuel burning.

Megadeath

The destruction of some of the last of the huge animals that shaped us inflicts a great wound in our lives.

Fowl Deeds

The astonishing, multiple crises caused by chicken farming.

Ground Control

There’s a great future for left-wing politics – built from the bottom up

Otter Joy

The return of Britain’s otters offers a glimpse of rewilding’s great rewards

Code of Silence

Almost all the issues worth debating are left unmentioned in this election.