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Author: monbiot
Amputating Life Close to Its Base
How the universities allow a corporate cult to capture and destroy their best students
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.
A Hole in the System
The outrageous, untold story of how big business dumps its costs on us.
The Longest Till Receipt in History
Just when hope and courage are called for, Labour promises bean-counting
A Blizzard of Nonsense
Whatever happened to the crazy weather the Daily Express keeps predicting?
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.
Ringbarking the Tree of Life
The destruction of cultural treasures by ISIS has parallels in ecological cleansing around the world.
Applauding Themselves to Death
Why the UN climate talks have wasted 23 years, and how this can change.
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.