The more destructive the business, the more likely it is to enjoy political protection.
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Silence of the Lambs
Livestock farming is responsible for more greenhouse gas pollution than all the world’s transport. Yet governments won’t touch it.
The Oligarch’s Oligarch
Just as we need to get the money out of politics, we have been gifted a Prime Minister who represents the ultra-rich.
The Coming Hunger
As environmental breakdown threatens to render large parts of the planet unfarmable, how can mass starvation best be averted?
Noble Rot
Protecting the natural world means creating tomorrow’s ancient habitats.
Shitstorm
Our team uncovers the remarkable, but scarcely understood, truth about river pollution.
The Erosion of Memory
A famine is being forced on the people of Tigray, the scene of one of the world’s greatest environmental success stories.
Real Life
This coronavirus is the wake-up call for a complacent civilisation.
Fossil Rebellion
In the midst of climate breakdown, governments around the world are funding and protecting the fossil fuel industry
Landlocked
Bullying and intimidation dominate the British countryside, as landowners and shooters assert their power.
The Problem is Capitalism
It is a weapon pointed at the living world. We urgently need to develop a new system.
An Electrifying Idea
What if we abandoned photosynthesis as the means of producing food, and released most of the world’s surface from agriculture?
Butchery of the Planet
Defending the living world and its people requires a shift from meat to a plant-based diet
Payments for Not Mugging Old Ladies
This is George Monbiot’s response to the government consultation document Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit
The Meat of the Matter
Farming animals is as unsustainable as mining coal.
Natural Language
If we want people to engage with the living world, we should stop using such constipated terms to describe our relationship to it.
The Lie of the Land
The Lake District’s world heritage status reveals a widespread betrayal of the living world, by both conservation groups and the UN
The Hills Are Dead
The terrible legacy of European farm subsidies – and how we could use Brexit as an opportunity for something better
The Fortifying Commons
In the first of a series of columns about possible solutions, I explore how commons could transform society and the distribution of wealth
Black Hole
The fake grassroots campaign run by grouse shooters is just one instance of the way democracy is being bypassed