Author: monbiot

Sheepwrecked

How Britain has been shagged by the white plague.

Robert MacFarlane interviews George Monbiot about rewilding.

A mass restoration of ecosystems offers us hope where there was little hope before.

Searching for enchantment on the frontiers of rewilding By George Monbiot. Published October 2013 by Allen Lane, Penguin Press.

Somehow almost all of us have missed the real story behind the disappearance of our wildlife.

Are repeated sightings of non-existent big cats evidence of a yearning for a wilder life?

When scholars sell out, the consequences are grave.

Corruption and short-termism are pushing us along the path of sorrows.

There is no point at which those who accumulate money become satisfied.

Amazingly, the UK government has not defined the precautionary principle and appears to have no idea what it is.

How government science advisers misrepresent science.

If the “hardest-worked river in the world” can recover to this extent, almost anything is possible.

Devolving policy to “the market” doesn’t solve the problem of power. It makes it worse.

The case for banning advertisements aimed at children is overwhelming.

We have offshored both our consumption and our perceptions

Why are 97% of our rivers shut to the public? A millionaire minister’s amazing conflicts of interest give you a clue.

Our record-breaking petition has been dismissed as a stunt by the minister it targets. But it has a serious purpose.

Here’s one of the big ideas we need to fight the power of the elite.

The line that separates the public from the private sphere is arbitrary, but fiercely policed.

An argument with Boris Johnson at the Copenhagen climate summit.