De-extinction sounds like a great idea. But there’s a problem most people have overlooked.
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For More Wonder, Rewild The World
My manifesto for the rewilding of people and planet.
The Naturalists Who Are Terrified of Nature
A radical challenge to British conservation and its bizarre priorities.
A Serengeti on Our Doorsteps
Is it really possible? Yes, I think it is.
Agricultural Hegemony
Why do farmers’ groups indulge in such ridiculous scaremongering about the restoration of the natural world?
Innocent Until Proved Dead
If assassinating suspects makes sense overseas, why not at home?
Raucous Summer
Our Newsnight film about rewilding.
Sheepwrecked
How Britain has been shagged by the white plague.
Surprised by Joy
Robert MacFarlane interviews George Monbiot about rewilding.
Feral
Searching for enchantment on the frontiers of rewilding By George Monbiot. Published October 2013 by Allen Lane, Penguin Press.
What’s Missing from this Picture?
Somehow almost all of us have missed the real story behind the disappearance of our wildlife.
The Never-Spotted Leopard
Are repeated sightings of non-existent big cats evidence of a yearning for a wilder life?
End of an Era
So now what do we do to defend life on Earth?
Mythologists of the Glen
A report on deer in the Scottish Highlands is a sycophantic paean to Balmorality and landed power.
Big Farmer
The poorest taxpayers are subsidising the richest people in Europe: and this spending will remain uncut until at least 2020.
Registry of Interests
This is a comprehensive list of my sources of income, and any hospitality or gifts I receive (except from family and friends), and the income tax I pay, beginning in September 2011.
Books
Books by George Monbiot: Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet (26 May 2022, Allen Lane) ISBN 978-0241447642 This Can’t Be Happening (26 August 2021, Penguin Classics) ISBN 978-1786632883 Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis (5 September 2017, Verso) ISBN 978-0241514634 How Did We Get into This Mess? Politics, Equality, […]
About George
I had an unhappy time at university, and I now regret having gone to Oxford, even though the zoology course I took – taught, among others, by Richard Dawkins, Bill Hamilton and John Krebs – was excellent. The culture did not suit me, and when I tried to join in I fell flat on my […]