Fight to Survive Another Day
A government that cannot tolerate protest is a government that cannot tolerate democracy.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 2nd July 2022
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Feel the Burn
While millions starve, crops are used to feed cars. It’s obscene.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th June 2022
What can you say about governments that, in the midst of a global food crisis, choose instead to feed machines? You might say they were crazy, uncaring or cruel. But these words scarcely suffice when you seek to describe the burning of food while millions starve.
Revolt Against Debt
This could be how the fight against climate breakdown reaches critical mass.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th June 2022
It has proved too easy to stop people uniting around the crucial issues of our time. Those who demand better pay and conditions for workers and justice for the poor have been pitched by demagogues and corporate lobbyists against those who demand a habitable planet.
Shit Creek
New revelations show how one of the most treasured rivers in Europe is being killed by intensive livestock farms.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th June 2022
Pirates of the North Sea
The government’s attempt to hide a toxic waste disaster heralds a new bonanza for organised crime.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 6th June 2022
With every passing week, it looks more like a cover-up. The repeated mass strandings of crabs and lobsters on the coast of north-east England, and the ever less plausible explanations provided by the government, are the outward signs of an undersea disaster and a grim new politics.
Muckraking Journalism
When sewage treatment goes right, it’s just as harmful as when it goes wrong. Here are the shocking reasons why.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th May 2022
Contagious Collapse
The global food system is in much more trouble than we think.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th May 2022
For the past few years, scientists have been frantically sounding an alarm that governments refuse to hear: the global food system is beginning to look like the global financial system in the run-up to 2008.
Politics Deniers
Those who claim that we can prevent environmental collapse without political pressure or political change are now more dangerous than climate deniers.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th May 2022
Social Vivisection
Across 12 years, the Conservatives have ruined countless lives and destroyed our social fabric. Why would anyone vote for them?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian
There is one question that counts when you cast your vote: have they made life better? This month, the Conservatives will have been in office for 12 years. Today, in the local elections, we have a chance to pass judgment on their record. What does it look like?
Tested to Destruction
What are school exams for?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th April 2022