The assault on Greece is just the latest episode in a long history of shutting down choice on behalf of the financial elite.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th Juy 2015
Greece might be financially bankrupt; the troika is politically bankrupt. Those who persecute this nation wield illegitimate, undemocratic powers: powers of the kind now afflicting us all.
What better symbol of a regenerating Scotland could there be than a new network of national parks?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st July 2015
Tartan Stalinists, the Highland Stasi, Scottish Nazi Party, the new Zimbabwe: surely the corporate press will soon run out of similes? Or at least drop dead through hyperventilation.
Vilification of the unemployed as scroungers and skivers has a long and grisly heritage.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th June 2015
In defending the natural world, we should be honest about our motivations – it’s love that drives us, not money.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th June 2015
Who wants to see the living world destroyed? Who wants an end to birdsong, bees and coral reefs, the falcon’s stoop, the salmon’s leap? Who wants to see the soil stripped from the land, the sea rimed with rubbish?
New insights from the deep past should transform the way we work with forests.
By George Monbiot, published in BBC Wildlife magazine, June 2015
We should stop recycling the old “Yellow Peril” myth. The people most hostile to action on climate change are American and British, not Chinese.
By George Monbiot, published on the Guardian’s website, 12th June 2015
China is the world’s excuse for cruelty and barbarism. If we don’t behave atrociously, politicians and columnists assure us, China will, so we had better do it first, before we are outcompeted.
Surrender your freedom, avoid daylight, live to work, and you too could join a toxic, paranoid elite.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th June 2015
Perhaps because the alternative is hideous to contemplate, we persuade ourselves that those who wield power know what they are doing. The belief in a guiding intelligence is hard to shake.
The cruelties of factory farming shelter behind a fairytale image, promoted by advertisers and children’s authors.
By George Monbiot, published on the Guardian’s website 29th May 2015
The way that meat, eggs and milk are produced is surrounded by one of our great silences, in which most people collaborate. We don’t want to know, because knowing would force anyone with a capacity for empathy to change their diet.
It now looks as if the greatest mass extinction on Earth – 250 million years ago – was caused by fossil fuel burning.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th May 2015
The destruction of some of the last of the huge animals that shaped us inflicts a great wound in our lives.
By George Monbiot, published on the Guardian’s website 22nd May 2015