Author: monbiot

Wiping the World Clean

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.

When governments lobby in favour of air pollution, you can be pretty sure there’s corruption involved.

Jeremy Corbyn is the only candidate who can revive the Labour Party. It’s the others who are chasing an impossible dream.

New evidence suggests that obesity might be incurable. So why does the government propose to punish sufferers?

Beware of politicians making themselves look big by inflating security threats

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

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

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

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

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

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

New insights from the deep past should transform the way we work with forests.

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