Politicians and government contractors now seem to be able to get away with almost anything.
Author: monbiot
The Pricing of Everything
The belief that we can save the living planet by putting a price on it is a delusion.
The Shooting Party
As the food queues lengthen, the government is giving our money to the super-rich.
Brilliance and Bunkum
The terrible howlers in James Lovelock’s new book show that genius is no defence against being wrong.
Reframing the Planet
People who think they are protecting nature by costing it are stepping straight into the destroyers’ trap.
Loved to Death
By embracing their critics and colonising governments, corporations engineer a world of conformity and consumerism.
Like a Demon from a Mediaeval Manuscript
Some speculations about one of the most extraordinary mammals to have roamed the Earth.
Loss Adjustment
When people say we should adapt to climate change, do they have any idea what that means?
Destroyer of Worlds
New research suggests there was no state of grace: for two million years humankind has been the natural world’s nemesis.
Smoke-Filled Rooms
How the media gives Big Tobacco everything it wants.
The Biogas Disaster
How the perverse consequences of a great idea are destroying the natural world.
All Give and No Take
Do those negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership have any interest in democracy? Here’s a test.
The Benefits Claimants the Government Loves
Corrupt, irrational, destructive, counter-productive: this scarcely begins to describe our farming policy.
Torpedoed
The results of a crowd-sourcing appeal prove that Discovery Channel engaged in fakery.
Up Sh*t Creek
Tracing the UK’s floods back to their source – in a canoe.
Jumping the Shark
Misleading claims by Discovery and other channels help to fuel wildlife massacres.
Muddying the Waters
How the government’s farming policies have produced a perfectly designed system for flooding your home.
How Wolves Change Rivers
A short extract from my TED talk.
Terrorism or Heroism?
If you join foreign conflicts you’re prosecuted as a terrorist, however just your cause.
Bring It On
Did an undercover policeman help to instigate a major riot?