Author: monbiot

Rewild the Child

A week in the countryside is worth three months in a classroom.

How governments bemoan the problem but keep stoking the fires.

The governments of Britain, Canada and Australia are trying to stamp out scientific dissent.

Apple offers 21st Century technology – with 19th Century ethics.

A remarkable “mistake” by the police hints at who wields power in the UK.

The market has not solved the problem of power: it has simply given it another name.

The US disease has arrived in Britain: representatives waging an all-out war against science.

The US calls on other nations to abide by the treaties it violates.

Tony Abbott intends to trash Australia on behalf of the super-rich.

The Lake District’s bid for World Heritage status shows just what a mess conservation is in.

Could fracking prevent climate change denial?

Promoting extractive industries is seen by politicians as a proper, manly pursuit, even if it makes no sense.

Why are almost all the trees that councils plant exotic species?

We’re just beginning to understand the wider impacts of neonicotinoids.

De-extinction sounds like a great idea. But there’s a problem most people have overlooked.

My manifesto for the rewilding of people and planet.

Lobbying results in old and dirty technologies being maintained long beyond their useful life.

A radical challenge to British conservation and its bizarre priorities.

Who killed the plan for cigarettes to be sold only in plain packets?

It’s time we confronted the National Farmers’ Union and the millionaires it works for.