Author: monbiot

Destroyer of Worlds

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.

In which the author recounts a chilling and idiotic brush with death.

A winter’s tale of guns, gold and greed.

Why do we transfer the real health risks inflicted by coal onto nuclear energy?

A conversation with Steve Wheeler for Dark Mountain