About George Monbiot
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Oxford University won't take funding from tobacco companies. But Shell's OK
by George Monbiot
Thu 16th May 2013If scholars don't take an ethical stance against corporate money, where's the moral check on power? George Monbiot reports.... [read more]
Climate milestone is a moment of symbolic significance on road of idiocy
by George Monbiot
Mon 13th May 2013The only way forward is back: to retrace our steps and seek to return atmospheric concentrations to around 350ppm, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Counter-Enlightenment
by George Monbiot
Wed 1st May 2013What happens to people when they become government science advisers? Are their children taken hostage? Is a dossier of compromising photographs kept, ready to send to the Sun if they step out of line? George Monbiot writes.... [read more]
The Self-Hating State
by George Monbiot
Tue 23rd Apr 2013Devolving policy to “the market” doesn’t solve the problem of power. It makes it worse, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Great Unmentionable
by George Monbiot
Sun 14th Apr 2013We have offshored the problem of escalating consumption, and our perceptions of it, by considering only territorial emissions, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Political Barbed Wire
by George Monbiot
Mon 8th Apr 2013Why are 97 per cent of our rivers shut to the public? A millionaire minister’s amazing conflicts of interest give you a clue, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Line of Battle
by George Monbiot
Wed 27th Mar 2013The 'private good, public bad' madness sees a bedroom tax foisted on the poor while the rich amass vast property wealth, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Frozen Assets
by George Monbiot
Mon 18th Mar 2013Why are we exploiting unconventional gas when we can’t afford to burn existing supplies? George Monbiot asks the crucial question.... [read more]
Smart Phones, Dumb Companies
by George Monbiot
Thu 14th Mar 2013Phone companies do too little to ensure the minerals they use are conflict-free. Here's what you can do to hold them to account, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
A Capitalist Command Economy
by George Monbiot
Mon 11th Mar 2013Forcing schools into the hands of unelected oligarchs is the latest contradiction of everything the market fetishists claim to stand for, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Corporate Blowback
by George Monbiot
Thu 28th Feb 2013Companies like EDF, seeking to terrify protesters with lawsuits, are likely to become victims of their own aggression, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Secrets of the Rich
by George Monbiot
Mon 25th Feb 2013Billionaires are hiding behind a network of “independent” groups, who manipulate politics on their behalf, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
The end of nuclear power? Careful what you wish for
by George Monbiot
Mon 11th Feb 2013Flawed and stalled as the plans for toxic waste may be, at least they exist. There is no way to clean up CO2, the greater evil, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
A Telling Silence
by George Monbiot
Mon 28th Jan 2013They parasitise us from above. But landowners and the Tory party's idle rich are spared the fairest and simplest of taxes, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Wolf killings are based on the most cynical of premises
by George Monbiot
Mon 21st Jan 2013Governments in Russia, Canada and Scandinavia claim they need to protect lesser species and habitats – while continuing their smash and grab raid on natural resources, writes George Monbiot.
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If you think we're done with neoliberalism, think again
by George Monbiot
Wed 16th Jan 2013The global application of a fraudulent economic theory brought the west to its knees. Yet for those in power, it offers riches, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Grime Behind the Crime
by George Monbiot
Wed 9th Jan 2013It seems crazy, but the evidence about lead is stacking up. Behind crimes that have destroyed so many lives, is there a much greater crime asks George Monbiot.... [read more]
The year we did our best to abandon the natural world
by George Monbiot
Tue 1st Jan 2013Emissions are rising, ice is melting and yet the response of governments is simply to pretend that none of it is happening, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
The day my inner anarchist lost out to the bourgeois me
by George Monbiot
Mon 31st Dec 2012A winter's day, some years back: a fall on the ice landed George Monbiot in A&E – and that's when he met the man with tattoos on his neck and knuckles.... [read more]
In the US, mass child killings are tragedies. In Pakistan, mere bug splats
by George Monbiot
Tue 18th Dec 2012George Monbiot: Barack Obama's tears for the children of Newtown are in stark contrast to his silence over the children murdered by his drones... [read more]
The Gift of Death
by George Monbiot
Tue 11th Dec 2012Every year we splurge on pointless, planet-trashing products, most of which are not wanted. Why not just bake them a cake, asks George Monbiot.
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The Fat of the Land
by George Monbiot
Wed 28th Nov 2012The European Union's farm subsidies are a modern equivalent of feudal aid. As Europe suffers under austerity, it's right to call for reform, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Recipes for Disaster
by George Monbiot
Fri 9th Nov 2012George Monbiot asked whether it is about time the media stopped publishing recipes for threatened fish?... [read more]
Struck Dumb
by George Monbiot
Tue 6th Nov 2012Despite hurricane Sandy, neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney will speak about global warming. The danger this poses is huge, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Cameron’s Contagion
by George Monbiot
Mon 29th Oct 2012There couldn’t be a clearer case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted. For the past three years there have been clear and unequivocal warnings that ash die-back could come to Britain, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Ash Cloud
by George Monbiot
Wed 24th Oct 2012There was a time when conservatism meant what the word suggests. It was an attempt to keep things as they are: to arrest economic and social change, to defend the position of the dominant class. Today conservatism has become a nihilistic festival of destruction, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Empty Promise
by George Monbiot
Mon 22nd Oct 2012George Monbiot asks if scientists have got the impacts of climate change on food supply wildly wrong?... [read more]
Romnesia
by George Monbiot
Tue 25th Sep 2012The parasitical ultra-rich often deny the role of others in the acquisition of their wealth – and even seek to punish them for it, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Mind Thieves
by George Monbiot
Wed 12th Sep 2012The evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to the food industry is strong and is growing, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
A Step Towards the Dock
by George Monbiot
Mon 3rd Sep 2012Desmond Tutu has helped us see the true nature of what the former prime minister did to Iraq and increased pressure for a prosecution, writes George Monbiot. ... [read more]
An animation calling for economic democracy
by George Monbiot
Wed 29th Aug 2012To answer the question of what the world will look like after capitalism, we first have to decide what we mean by capitalism. If it means a system that arises from lending money at interest, then there will be no “after capitalism” writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Hunger Games
by George Monbiot
Tue 14th Aug 2012The rich world is causing the famines it claims to be preventing, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Great Impostors
by George Monbiot
Wed 8th Aug 2012Under the guise of saving the natural world, governments are privatising it and rarely will the money to be made by protecting nature match the money to be made by destroying it, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Dance With the One Who Brung You
by George Monbiot
Sun 5th Aug 2012Protecting the environment, like protecting the welfare of a nation’s poorest and weakest people, requires a sweeping reform of political funding, on both sides of the Atlantic, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Scorched Earth Economics
by George Monbiot
Wed 1st Aug 2012The model is dead; long live the model. Austerity programmes are extending the crises they were meant to solve, yet governments refuse to abandon them and the UK provides a powerful example, writes George Monbiot. ... [read more]
A new front opens up in the war against nature
by George Monbiot
Fri 27th Jul 2012George Monbiot says that the Countryside Alliance’s campaign against a ban on lead shot strikes him as motivated by the age-old attitude of reactionary members of the landowning classes: that they will not be subject to the laws or considerations that affect lesser members of society. ... [read more]
The Promised Land
by George Monbiot
Sat 21st Jul 2012To be young in the post-industrial nations today is to be excluded. Excluded from the comforts enjoyed by preceding generations; excluded from jobs; excluded from hopes of a better world; excluded from self-ownership, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
For Those Who Love Life
by George Monbiot
Mon 16th Jul 2012The people cutting open bluefin tuna nets are heroes: they are stepping in where governments have failed, to protect our common heritage, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Anomie
by George Monbiot
Tue 10th Jul 2012Enclosure and dispossession have driven us, like John Clare, all a little mad, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Mendacity of Hope
by George Monbiot
Tue 19th Jun 2012Rio 2012: the summits which promise to save the world keep us dangling, not mobilising, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Storm Warning
by George Monbiot
Sat 16th Jun 2012I suppose I should have seen this coming. In January, I discovered that the forecasters employed by a company called Positive Weather Solutions, whose inaccurate predictions were widely used by the newspapers, don’t exist, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Resurgent Aristocracy
by George Monbiot
Wed 6th Jun 2012Rural policy is once again the preserve of the elite, and wildlife and people suffer as a result, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
A Monstrous Proposal
by George Monbiot
Tue 8th May 2012Extending transparency laws to the private sector would make the likes of News International think twice before misbehaving, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Empire of Capital
by George Monbiot
Tue 1st May 2012A one-sided justice sees weaker states punished as rich nations and giant corporations project their power across the world, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Keys to the Blood Bank
by George Monbiot
Sun 22nd Apr 2012The Conservative minister charged with protecting wildlife is making a packet as a result of weak wildlife protection laws, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Rewilding Our Children
by George Monbiot
Wed 18th Apr 2012When my second child reaches my age I fear the NHS, along with the tiger and rhino, will be part of a mythologised arcadia, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
A Manifesto for Psychopaths
by George Monbiot
Wed 7th Mar 2012Ayn Rand’s ideas have become the Marxism of the new right, she may have died 30 years ago but the belief system constructed by her has never been more popular or influential, says George Monbiot.
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Plutocracy, Pure and Simple
by George Monbiot
Tue 21st Feb 2012Now it’s a straight fight with the billionaires and corporations, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Liberal Constipation
by George Monbiot
Tue 7th Feb 2012Conservatism is linked to low intelligence; but the real idiots are the progressives letting it win, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Divine Injustice
by George Monbiot
Tue 31st Jan 2012Drone warfare can be used to thwart democratic movements, anywhere, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Great Pay Robbery
by George Monbiot
Wed 25th Jan 2012Here’s why the government’s proposals on executive pay won’t work – and why we need a maximum wage, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Sacrificial Caste
by George Monbiot
Tue 17th Jan 2012In this and other nations, there are groups of children who can be abused with impunity, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Why Libertarians Must Deny Climate Change
by George Monbiot
Sat 7th Jan 2012As soon as it encounters environmental issues, the ideology of the new right becomes ensnared in its own contradictions, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Unmasking the Press
by George Monbiot
Tue 13th Dec 2011The corporate newspapers are the elite’s enforcers, misrepresenting the sources of oppression, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Slash and Burn Capitalism
by George Monbiot
Fri 2nd Dec 2011Now the government intends to strip away protection from our most treasured places, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Corporate Welfare State
by George Monbiot
Tue 22nd Nov 2011Despite the crisis, it’s still socialism for the 1 per cent, capitalism for the rest.... [read more]
Wealth Destroyers
by George Monbiot
Tue 1st Nov 2011The Corporation of the City of London has harmed you more than you know, says George Monbiot.
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Show Me The Money
by George Monbiot
Tue 18th Oct 2011We have a democratic right to know who is funding public advocacy, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Think of a Tank
by George Monbiot
Tue 13th Sep 2011The “free market thinktanks” and their secret funders are a threat to democracy, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Lairds of Learning
by George Monbiot
Tue 30th Aug 2011Who are the most ruthless capitalists in the Western world? Whose monopolistic practices makes WalMart look like a corner shop and Rupert Murdoch look like a socialist?... [read more]
Out of the Ashes
by George Monbiot
Tue 23rd Aug 2011Now is the time to start planning for a new economy, not dependent on growth. ... [read more]
How the Billionaires Broke the System
by George Monbiot
Tue 2nd Aug 2011The US deficit reduction plan makes no sense – until you remember who’s behind the Tea Party movement. ... [read more]
Towering Lunacy
by George Monbiot
Sat 21st Aug 2010Green enthusiasm for vertical farms shows that no one is untouched by magical thinking, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
BP’s Dumb Investors
by George Monbiot
Fri 25th Jun 2010The companies now threatening to sue BP have only themselves to blame, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Money Gusher
by George Monbiot
Fri 11th Jun 2010The oil industry’s decommissioning costs will dwarf those of nuclear power. The money being made now should be put aside to meet them, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Universal Cure
by George Monbiot
Fri 28th May 2010George Monbit proposes a simple means of transforming the UK’s universities, schools and society.
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Money’s Hunger
by George Monbiot
Fri 14th May 2010Industrial civilisation is trashing the environment. George Monbiot asks: should we try to reform it or just watch it go down? ... [read more]
An Eruption of Reality
by George Monbiot
Fri 23rd Apr 2010George Monbiot asks: has our society become too complex to sustain?... [read more]
Walled In
by George Monbiot
Fri 9th Apr 2010Science and humanities students view each other with incomprehension: blame our dumb, narrow schooling, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Morality Policing
by George Monbiot
Fri 2nd Apr 2010The police treat protests and festivals as a threat to their power, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
War With the Ghosts
by George Monbiot
Fri 26th Mar 2010George Monbiot asks: what are our nuclear weapons for, and who controls them? ... [read more]
The Naming of Things
by George Monbiot
Fri 19th Mar 2010George Monbiot suggests one small way in which the collapse of biodiversity could be slowed.... [read more]
Bleak Havens
by George Monbiot
Fri 26th Feb 2010It's time to close the net on tax havens, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
A Bounty for Blair’s Arrest
by George Monbiot
Fri 29th Jan 2010George Monbiot on why he has launched a new fund to reward people who attempt to arrest Britan's former prime minister.... [read more]
Consumer Hell
by George Monbiot
Fri 8th Jan 2010George Moniot asks: How do we break a system which now permeates every aspect of our lives? ... [read more]
Requiem for a Crowded Planet
by George Monbiot
Fri 25th Dec 2009George Monbiot's analysis of the failure of the climate talks.... [read more]
The Real Climate Scandal
by George Monbiot
Fri 11th Dec 2009A scandal over faked evidence has been a boon to climate change deniers. George Monbiot looks to redress the balance.... [read more]
If Nothing Else, Save Farming
by George Monbiot
Fri 20th Nov 2009It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Champions of the Overdog
by George Monbiot
Fri 13th Nov 2009Local papers are vanishing. George Monbiot asks: Does it matter? ... [read more]
Justice in Shades
by George Monbiot
Fri 9th Oct 2009A damning judgement on army killings suggests that officials at every level have covered up torture and murder, as George Monbiot explains.... [read more]
The Population Myth
by George Monbiot
Fri 2nd Oct 2009George Monbiot says people who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor.... [read more]
The Great Cop-Out
by George Monbiot
Fri 11th Sep 2009Impeded by Gordon Brown, the G20 has decided that bankers won’t be properly regulated, as George Monbiot explains.... [read more]
Not Even Wrong
by George Monbiot
Fri 4th Sep 2009Guardian journalist George Monbiot on a radical approach to cutting greenhouse gases.... [read more]
Should We Seek to Save Industrial Civilisation? A Debate with Paul Kingsnorth
by George Monbiot
Fri 21st Aug 2009Guardian journalist George Monbiot discusses climate change with the Oxford-based environmentalist Paul Kingsnorth.... [read more]
Politically Transmitted Disease
by George Monbiot
Fri 31st Jul 2009Rising rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in the United States are the result of programmes intended to stamp them out, argues George Monbiot.... [read more]
Outsourcing Unrest
by George Monbiot
Fri 19th Jun 2009George Monbiot argues that the crisis in British politics has its roots in the decline of Britain's status in the world economy.... [read more]
Blue Desert
by George Monbiot
Fri 5th Jun 2009George Monbiot asks: Why is no one brave enough to stand up to the fishing industry? ... [read more]
Captive Knowledge
by George Monbiot
Fri 15th May 2009The funding for academic research has been taken over by business, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Cross Your Fingers and Carry On
by George Monbiot
Fri 17th Apr 2009George Monbiot asks: Why does the UK government refuse to make contingency plans for peak oil? ... [read more]
Scrap It
by George Monbiot
Fri 13th Mar 2009Environmental campaigner George Monbiot tears into the UK government's proposals for stimulating the motor industry.... [read more]
The Proceeds of Crime
by George Monbiot
Fri 6th Mar 2009The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys on human lives, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Someone Else’s England
by George Monbiot
Fri 20th Feb 2009Guardian journalist George Monbiot makes the case for further devolutionary reform in Britain.... [read more]
You Stand for Nothing But Election
by George Monbiot
Fri 13th Feb 2009George Monbiot sets a few things straight in an open letter to government minister Hazel Blears.... [read more]
Flying Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by George Monbiot
Fri 16th Jan 2009Guardian journalist George Monbiot poors scorn on the notion that climate change issues are the preserve of a misanthropic middle-class snobbery.... [read more]
The Open Veins of Wales
by George Monbiot
Fri 2nd Jan 2009Guardian journalist George Monbiot on his love for his adopted country.... [read more]
One Shot Left
by George Monbiot
Fri 28th Nov 2008George Monbiot on how the Bush administration, in its final death throes, is stepping up its war on the environment.... [read more]
Lest We Forget
by George Monbiot
Fri 14th Nov 2008George Monbiot asks: Could the First World War have been avoided?... [read more]
The Triumph of Ignorance: Why Morons Succeed in US politics
by George Monbiot
Fri 31st Oct 2008An exasperated George Monbiot tries to account for the pervasiveness of vacuous, ill-informed garbage in the discourse of US electoral politics.... [read more]
Free the Unborn! A Proposal for Slowing Down Politics
by George Monbiot
Fri 24th Oct 2008George Monbiot on why the struggle against climate change is being undermined by political short-termism.... [read more]
Congress Confronts Its Contradictions
by George Monbiot
Fri 3rd Oct 2008George Monbiot on why it's ordinary taxpayers who will pay the price for the incompetence of big finance.... [read more]
The Patron Saint of Charlatans
by George Monbiot
Fri 26th Sep 2008George Monbiot asks: How does Christopher Booker get away with it?... [read more]
The Price of Free Speech
by George Monbiot
Fri 19th Sep 2008A grotesque case of legal bullying using a 13th-Century law shows that in some respects we still haven’t shaken off feudalism.... [read more]
Protect and Survive
by George Monbiot
Fri 12th Sep 2008George Monbiot on how Peter Mandelson is bullying the world’s poorest nations into following a development route that can’t work. ... [read more]
Strange Fruit
by George Monbiot
Fri 5th Sep 2008Guardian columnist George Monbiot on....fruit.... [read more]
Manufactured Famine
by George Monbiot
Fri 29th Aug 2008George Monbiot on the European trade initiatives which are likely to exacerbate existing food shortages in the developing world.... [read more]
The Magic Pudding
by George Monbiot
Fri 22nd Aug 2008George Monbiot on why the US government still pouring billions into missile defence.... [read more]
Hypocrites Unite!
by George Monbiot
Fri 15th Aug 2008George Monbiot on Julie Burchill's ill-informed diatribe against environmentalists.... [read more]
Coal Scuttled
by George Monbiot
Fri 8th Aug 2008George Monbiot on why we should all support this week's Climate Camp demonstration.... [read more]
Nuking the Treaty
by George Monbiot
Fri 1st Aug 2008George Monbiot argues Iran is the least of the world’s offenders against non-proliferation.... [read more]
Mind-Forged Manacles
by George Monbiot
Fri 27th Jun 2008Crime is down, convictions are down, but the prisons are bursting. Why?... [read more]
Lost in the System
by George Monbiot
Fri 20th Jun 2008What has happened to Bush’s secret prisoners?... [read more]
Justice Undone
by George Monbiot
Fri 6th Jun 2008George Monbiot reflects on his bold attempt to effect a citizen's arrest of John Bolton.... [read more]
Arresting John Bolton
by George Monbiot
Fri 30th May 2008Guardian journalist George Monbiot explains his decision to attempt a ctizen's arrest of former US Under-Secretary of State John Bolton this week.... [read more]
Nothing Left to Fight For
by George Monbiot
Fri 23rd May 2008The most rightwing government Britain has had since the Second World War does not deserve to be re-elected.... [read more]
How to Build a Human Bomb
by George Monbiot
Fri 16th May 2008George Monbiot argues that the Guantanamo Bay concetration camp is an affront to the very idea of justice.... [read more]
The Great Consolidation
by George Monbiot
Fri 2nd May 2008George Monbiot on New Labour's ongoing attack on the NHS.... [read more]
The Pleasures of the Flesh
by George Monbiot
Fri 18th Apr 2008If you care about hunger, eat less meat.... [read more]
Snow Jobs
by George Monbiot
Fri 4th Apr 2008George Monbiot examines the detail behind "job creation".... [read more]
Burnt Out
by George Monbiot
Fri 28th Mar 2008The Government’s plans for clean coal are another great green scam.... [read more]
Pro-Death
by George Monbiot
Fri 29th Feb 2008George Monbiot considers the implications of attempts to reverse progress on abortion.... [read more]
An Exchange of Souls
by George Monbiot
Fri 22nd Feb 2008As government documents show, Sir Nicholas Stern accidentally launched a trade in human lives.... [read more]
Death of the Noble Idea
by George Monbiot
Fri 8th Feb 2008Big money trumps everything in politics, even the most dearly-held beliefs.... [read more]