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A massive new road scheme will solve precisely nothing, while costing the Earth. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24 th June 2025 There appear to be two main determinants of what ...
Archive of his syndicated column about international and British politics and issues, arranged by topic.
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. I have opened this ...
On both sides of the Atlantic, powerful interests seem determined to trigger the collapse of life on Earth. Why? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 6 th July 2022 It feels like the end game.
Predatory corporations are making a mockery of natural climate solutions, as they grab land and bamboozle the public. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26 th January 2022 There is nothing ...
Many of our current crises are the long-term results of a meeting which took place 60 years ago By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 28th August 2007 For the first time, the United Kingdom’s ...
The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 22nd November 2004 If human beings were without sin, we would still live in an ...
Farming animals is as unsustainable as mining coal. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4 th October 2017 What will future generations, looking back on our age, see as its monstrosities? We ...
My response to Jonathon Porritt’s arguments – and to his highly personal invective. By George Monbiot, with Chris Goodall, published on monbiot.com, 8th August 2011 This is the long version of a ...
The appalling mistreatment of ME/CFS patients continues, based on the myth that it’s all in the mind. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12 th March 2024 It’s the greatest medical scandal of ...
It’s because the climate crisis is now visible to everyone that governments are giving the fossil fuel industry everything it demands. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1 st August 2023 To ...