The Mind Hackers
Researchers at public universities are developing new ways of shutting down our capacity for independent thought.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 31st December 2018
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You Want It Darker?
The remarkable story of how the hard-right Koch brothers funded a Trotskyite splinter group.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th November 2018
Dark money is among the greatest current threats to democracy. It means money spent below the public radar, that seeks to change political outcomes. It enables very rich people and corporations to influence politics without showing their hands.
Slavemasters
The world’s most powerful nations endorsed the Indonesian occupation of West Papua 50 years ago. Now they have a duty to help bring it to an end.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st November 2018
Hopeless Realism
No effective means of stopping climate breakdown is deemed “politically realistic”. So we must change political realities.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th November 2018
In a World of Their Own
By downplaying and misrepresenting our environmental crisis, David Attenborough and the BBC have generated complacency, confusion and ignorance.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 7th Novemeber 2018
An Electrifying Idea
What if we abandoned photosynthesis as the means of producing food, and released most of the world’s surface from agriculture?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 31st October 2018
Rebelling Against Extinction
When governments abandon us, we must step up
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th October 2018
Farmed Out
The government’s Agriculture Bill seeks to replace regulation with public money. Who will contest this new protection racket?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th October 2018
Personality Cult
The media’s spotlight systematically distorts the way we see the world
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd October 2018
Deathly Silence
We need to get embarrassing about climate breakdown
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th September 2018
We’re getting there, aren’t we? We’re making the transition towards an all-electric future. We can now leave fossil fuels in the ground and thwart climate breakdown. Or so you might imagine if you follow the technology news.