The denial of popular sovereignty by mainstream leaders allows demagogues like Trump to pose as democratic champions.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th June 2018
He gets almost everything wrong. But last weekend Donald Trump got something right. To the horror of the other leaders of the rich world, he defended democracy against its detractors. Perhaps predictably, he has been universally condemned for it.
Defending the living world and its people requires a shift from meat to a plant-based diet
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th June 2018
Whether human beings survive this century and the next, whether other lifeforms can live alongside us: above all this depends on the way we eat. We can cut our consumption of everything else close to zero and still drive living systems to collapse, unless we change our diets.
Make bosses pay for the disasters they cause
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th May 2018
Once more, they walk away. The senior bosses at Carillion, like those at RBS, Northern Rock and a host of other corporate zombies, went home to count their undiminished millions. The pain they inflicted was felt by others. Reckless greed paid out again.
The “natural capital” agenda is morally wrong, intellectually vacuous, and most of all counter-productive
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th May 2018
The wonderful things I learnt during my treatment for prostate cancer
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 9th May 2018
If I could turn back the clock, magically deleting my prostate cancer, the surgery I needed and its complications, would I do so? It seems an odd question. But I find it surprisingly hard to answer.
This is George Monbiot’s response to the government consultation document Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit
Submitted to the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 29th April 2018
I am a journalist, author and environmental campaigner. I am contracted by The Guardian to write a weekly column. I have no landholding or other direct financial interest in the questions addressed here.
Why loneliness afflicts us – and how we should address it, in words and music
A 20-minute video of a talk and concert by George Monbiot and Ewan McLennan, TEDxSouthampton, 23rd January 2017
How did neoliberalism happen and what do we do about it?
A one-hour video of a discussion with John Lanchester at the London Review Bookshop, 14th July 2016
Our multiple crises, and how we can escape them
A 1-hour video of George Monbiot speaking at Falmouth University, 17th March 2018
A new politics needs a new political narrative
A 13-minute video with George Monbiot for openDemocracy, 14th November 2017