Strategic Incompetence
The agencies supposed to protect the living world have been neutered, and polluters and wildlife destroyers now have a free hand.
By George Monbiot, published on the Guardian’s website 12th November 2015
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Moral Blankness
A leaked letter from David Cameron offers a remarkable – and terrifying – insight into his mind.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th November 2015
The Dolphin Killers of Cardigan Bay
Why does the Welsh government propose this gratuitous act of destruction? It refuses to say.
By George Monbiot, published on the Guardian’s website, 9th November 2015
Loved to Death
The UK’s national parks should be redesignated as ecological disaster zones.
A lecture to the UK National Parks conference, by George Monbiot, 14th October 2015
This is my ferocious attack on the dire state of the UK’s national parks, and my ideas for how they could be improved.
How to Build a Crisis
Banks and corporations are being liberated from the rule of law, and are ripping the world apart.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th November 2015
What have governments learnt from the financial crisis? I could write a column spelling it out. Or I could do the same job with one word. Nothing.
Nothing to See Here
In the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far), Indonesia has been blotted out by smoke. And the media.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th October 2015
Human Kind
Fascinating new lines of research suggest that we are good people, tolerating bad things.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th October 2015
Do you find yourself thrashing against the tide of human indifference and selfishness? Are you oppressed by the sense that while you care, others don’t? That because of humankind’s callousness, civilisation and the rest of life on earth are basically stuffed? If so, you are not alone. But neither are you right.
On Bullshit
The hideous pollution case I stumbled on illustrates our failure to see the harm caused by animal farming.
By George Monbiot, published on the Guardian’s website, 5th October 2015
Eat less meat and fish, drink less milk. No request could be simpler, or more consequential. Nothing we do has greater potential for reducing our impacts on the living planet. Yet no request is more likely to elicit a baffled, hurt or furious response.
Inhospitable Planet
There may be water on Mars. But is there intelligent life on Earth?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th September 2015
Evidence for flowing water on Mars – this opens up the possibility of life; of wonders we cannot begin to imagine. Its discovery is an astonishing achievement. Meanwhile, Martian scientists continue their search for intelligent life on Earth.
Wiping the World Clean
The Ecomodernists launching their manifesto today propose solutions that are both ignorant and brutal.
By George Monbiot, published on the Guardian’s website, 24th September 2015
Beware of simple solutions to complex problems. That is a crucial lesson from history; a lesson that intelligent people in every age keep failing to learn.