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Insectageddon

The scale and speed of environmental collapse is beyond imagination.

Our representative democracy is scarcely worthy of the name. 21st Century politics demands a more participatory system

Some radical ideas for reshaping the economy.

We should use the political space being opened by the Labour resurgence to develop a new, participatory economy

Farming animals is as unsustainable as mining coal.

Hope lies with a great, neglected sector of the economy, through which we can create a system that is neither capitalist nor state communist.

Who is the world’s leading environmental vandal? The answer may surprise you.

The demand for perpetual economic growth, and the collective madness it provokes, leads inexorably to environmental collapse

Here are my proposals for a new politics, designed for the 21st Century

Aung San Suu Kyi should lose her Nobel Prize, as a result of her disgraceful complicity in genocide

The media avoids the subject of climate breakdown – to do otherwise is to bring the entire infrastructure of thought crashing down

If we want people to engage with the living world, we should stop using such constipated terms to describe our relationship to it.

Electric cars address only a small part of the problem – we need to rethink the whole crazy transport system.

A New Politics for an Age of Crisis By George Monbiot. Published by Verso Books.

Politics, Equality, Nature By George Monbiot. Published 2016 by Verso Books.

Global trade once made us rich. Now it unleashes a full-spectrum assault on our well-being.

How a secretive network built around a Nobel prizewinner set out to curtail our freedoms

The Lake District’s world heritage status reveals a widespread betrayal of the living world, by both conservation groups and the UN

Unesco’s tragicomic aversion to public engagement.

The public inquiry into Grenfell Tower will be a farce unless it examines the long-running assault on public protections.