Author: monbiot

Channelling the Joy

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.

Surrender your freedom, avoid daylight, live to work, and you too could join a toxic, paranoid elite.

How the universities allow a corporate cult to capture and destroy their best students

The cruelties of factory farming shelter behind a fairytale image, promoted by advertisers and children’s authors.

It now looks as if the greatest mass extinction on Earth – 250 million years ago – was caused by fossil fuel burning.

The destruction of some of the last of the huge animals that shaped us inflicts a great wound in our lives.

The astonishing, multiple crises caused by chicken farming.

There’s a great future for left-wing politics – built from the bottom up

The return of Britain’s otters offers a glimpse of rewilding’s great rewards

Almost all the issues worth debating are left unmentioned in this election.

The outrageous, untold story of how big business dumps its costs on us.

Just when hope and courage are called for, Labour promises bean-counting

Whatever happened to the crazy weather the Daily Express keeps predicting?

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

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

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

The destruction of cultural treasures by ISIS has parallels in ecological cleansing around the world.

Why the UN climate talks have wasted 23 years, and how this can change.