Author: monbiot

Reframing the Planet

People who think they are protecting nature by costing it are stepping straight into the destroyers’ trap.

By embracing their critics and colonising governments, corporations engineer a world of conformity and consumerism.

Some speculations about one of the most extraordinary mammals to have roamed the Earth.

When people say we should adapt to climate change, do they have any idea what that means?

New research suggests there was no state of grace: for two million years humankind has been the natural world’s nemesis.

How the media gives Big Tobacco everything it wants.

How the perverse consequences of a great idea are destroying the natural world.

Do those negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership have any interest in democracy? Here’s a test.

Corrupt, irrational, destructive, counter-productive: this scarcely begins to describe our farming policy.

The results of a crowd-sourcing appeal prove that Discovery Channel engaged in fakery.

Tracing the UK’s floods back to their source – in a canoe.

Misleading claims by Discovery and other channels help to fuel wildlife massacres.

How the government’s farming policies have produced a perfectly designed system for flooding your home.

A short extract from my TED talk.

If you join foreign conflicts you’re prosecuted as a terrorist, however just your cause.

Did an undercover policeman help to instigate a major riot?

Never mind the evidence, we’ll do something eye-catching.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chainstores.

The hidden and remarkable story of why devastating floods keep happening.

A shocking new bill threatens to make this country feel like a giant shopping mall.