Author: monbiot

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.

Kleptoremuneration

Theft through excessive rewards: that’s the dominant business model.

Ploughing On Regardless

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

Hard Graft

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

Slip Sliding Away

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

Hope Among the Ruins

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

Unremitting Pain

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