Author: monbiot

The Pricing of Everything

The Natural Capital Agenda looks like an answer to the environmental crisis. But it’s a delusion.

Get ready for a radical rightwing insurgency that could be stirring within the Conservative Party.

As soon as an animal becomes extinct, a new bill proposes, it will be classified as “non-native”.

Neonicotinoids appear to have devastating effects across the natural world: we need a global moratorium.

Is life extension science an astonishing promise or an astonishing threat? Or both?

The government’s decision to capture England’s only free-living population is unjustified and irrational.

The real enemies of press freedom are in the newsroom.

Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is an astonishing and hitherto-unnoticed contradiction.

Is the government preparing to dispose of our forests and other public land?

We cannot reach people by terrifying them; there has to be a positive agenda.

How to ensure that nations slide ever further into selfishness, and ever further to the right.

In an extraordinary coup, farmers’ unions and the UK government have torpedoed the European Soil Framework Directive

The point of current housing policy is to sustain a system built on injustice.

Why collapse and salvation are hard to distinguish from each other.

Will Scotland please get off its knees and challenge the people who claim to own it.

The more we consume, the less we care about the living planet.

Politicians and government contractors now seem to be able to get away with almost anything.

The belief that we can save the living planet by putting a price on it is a delusion.

As the food queues lengthen, the government is giving our money to the super-rich.

The terrible howlers in James Lovelock’s new book show that genius is no defence against being wrong.