Author: monbiot

The Culture of Nature

The ignorance and philistinism of those who attack nature lovers knows no bounds.

Why do we ignore the most blatant transfer of money from the poor to the rich?

Is it really possible? Yes, I think it is.

The police spy scandal shows that mass surveillance will be used against us.

A three-year, £100 bet on solar power has matured. Who won?

Who do Bono and the ONE campaign really represent: the very poor or the very rich?

Under the pretext of preventing hunger, the rich nations are engineering a new scramble for Africa.

Why do farmers’ groups indulge in such ridiculous scaremongering about the restoration of the natural world?

A brilliant and beautiful animation.

If assassinating suspects makes sense overseas, why not at home?

How a community might recover from a horror that defies imagination.

Our Newsnight film about rewilding.

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.