How Do We Get Out of This Mess?
Four observations and one political story that turn despair into hope
By George Monbiot, adapted from Out of the Wreckage: a new politics for an age of crisis, and published in the Guardian, 9th September 2017
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The Lady Has Turned
Aung San Suu Kyi should lose her Nobel Prize, as a result of her disgraceful complicity in genocide
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 6th September 2017
Don’t Look Now
The media avoids the subject of climate breakdown – to do otherwise is to bring the entire infrastructure of thought crashing down
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 29 August 2017
It is not only Donald Trump’s government that censors the discussion of climate change; it is the entire body of polite opinion. This is why, though the links are clear and obvious, the majority of news reports on Hurricane Harvey have made no mention of the human contribution.
Natural Language
If we want people to engage with the living world, we should stop using such constipated terms to describe our relationship to it.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 9th August 2017
If Moses had promised the Israelites a land flowing with mammary secretions and insect vomit, would they have followed him into Canaan? Though this means milk and honey, I doubt it.
Pollution Solutions
Electric cars address only a small part of the problem – we need to rethink the whole crazy transport system.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 2nd August 2017
Out of the Wreckage
A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the twenty-first century?
A toxic ideology rules the world – of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better world.
How Did We Get into This Mess?
Politics, Equality, Nature
Where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it
Game of Chicken
Global trade once made us rich. Now it unleashes a full-spectrum assault on our well-being.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th July 2017
Missing Link
How a secretive network built around a Nobel prizewinner set out to curtail our freedoms
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th July 2017
The Lie of the Land
The Lake District’s world heritage status reveals a widespread betrayal of the living world, by both conservation groups and the UN
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th July 2017