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.
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
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.
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
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?
What are school exams for?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th April 2022
The failure to adapt to new realities is not an accident. It’s the design.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th April 2022
Almost everyone in public life participates in the assault on truth.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th March 2022
It’s not decarbonisation that’s unaffordable. It’s climate breakdown.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd March 2022
We won’t defend ourselves from the global food crisis by destroying what remains of our wildlife.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th March 2022