Author: monbiot

All Change

An ability to contest the circumstances of our birth is an essential element of our humanity.

How public money and crazy policies speed water off the land and into our homes

The joints of meat that do more damage than a long-haul flight

Rewilding, hillwalking and the extraordinary history of these islands.

The remarkable decline in violence between humans suggests that we could also restrain our violence against the planet.

The COP21 climate talks in Paris were not the success that governments claim, but a disastrous failure.

Censoring official advice, stripping the hills and rivers, the government ensures that disasters like the Cumbria floods will keep recurring.

There are plenty of real problems with aircraft emissions. But thousands of people are obsessed instead with a fairy tale.

Why is the government so quick to bomb, yet so slow to act on climate change?

An online tool that changes your answers is not the only problem with this attempt to fake public consent for dredging a dolphin reserve.

The belief that economic growth can be detached from destruction appears to be based on a simple accounting mistake.

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.