George Monbiot

Hero or Villain?

Richard Leakey’s reappointment as head of the Kenya Wildlife Service is a disaster for Kenya’s nomads

Local people are the real victims of the turf war between the conservation authorities in Kenya

The “Tragedy of the Commons” is one of the modern world’s most dangerous myths.

Why are the same myths associated with blacksmiths all over the world?

A peasant farmers’ project in the western Amazon might hold the key to protecting the forests

The only people who can prevent the invasion of Indian reserves in Brazil and British and American consumers

Why doesn’t Guinness stop fighting us and help us to turn its land into something worthwhile?

Golf course development is becoming one of the major threats to the environment and human rights

Self-serving relief agencies are doing nothing to build up developing countries’ own capacity to respond

A disastrous conflict of interest ensures that the government won’t stop oil pollution

A disastrous military project in the northern Amazon will destroy some of the most pristine forests on earth.