Author: monbiot

Ploughing On Regardless

Almost all other issues are superficial by comparison to soil loss. So why don’t we talk about it?

Britain is not corrupt? Only through a ridiculously narrow framing of what corruption is.

The destruction of cultural treasures by ISIS has parallels in ecological cleansing around the world.

Why the UN climate talks have wasted 23 years, and how this can change.

Is the killing of trees the link between this great rail disaster and 2014’s floods?

An astonishing money creation scheme from the 1930s that could help to save the Greek economy.

The US government, it seems, couldn’t care less if it causes a humanitarian catastrophe in one of the world’s poorest nations.

A new form of marine mass destruction is outrageously being justified by the EU and its member states in the name of “scientific research”.

Consumerism has broken its promise. Perhaps now we can begin to reconnect.

How to eradicate grey squirrels without firing a shot – an astonishing tale of ecological restoration.

With the sudden collapse of the neoliberal consensus, it’s time to ditch tactical voting and start choosing what we want.

The government has torpedoed its promised community energy revolution – to the benefit of big business.

As an astonishing scandal in Canada shows, journalists who should be challenging power work instead on its behalf.

Why, in this age of freedom, are we so confined? And what can we do to reclaim our lives?

Why will no one answer the obvious, massive question about TTIP?

The astonishing story of how whales keep the oceans alive – and alter the composition of the atmosphere.

How our governments’ crashing contradictions destroy their climate policies.

I describe the grotesque injustice of European farm subsidies – to an audience of farmers.

Children are being airbrushed from our towns and cities. No wonder they stay indoors.

Discussing the corruption of politics with Russell Brand on the Trews.