Author: monbiot

Cold Comfort

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

Amazingly, the BBC seems happy to be exploited by covert corporate lobbyists.

Materialism promises satisfaction. It delivers despair.

A new government appointment provides a chilling insight into its priorities.

Politicians and officials are desperately seeking to justify their transatlantic assault on democracy.

The BBC’s disgraceful failure to reveal who its contributors are speaking for.

The argument seems, once more, decisively to favour veganism.

Advertising and consumerism dull our capacity for empathy.

A government-backed industrial lobbying campaign is being funded by a stealth tax. It’s an outrage.

A shocking case of denial highlights the problem that Catholics – and Pope Francis – have with history.

Nothing will change until we confront the real sources of power.

How about building bonfires without the old sofas and painted boards?

That’s what the new rules being smuggled into trade agreements are delivering.

Ill-informed and incoherent: the head of the National Trust talks nonsense on fracking.

The government is betting the farm on a nuclear technology that might soon look as hip as the traction engine.

Why do conservation groups help to keep our wildlife in a state of extreme depletion?

The real threat to the national interest comes from the rich and powerful