Ignoble Prize
If the Nobel Peace Prize means anything, it should be stripped from Aung San Suu Kyi for her complicity in the massacres in Myanmar/Burma
A 4-minute film with George Monbiot by Double Down News, 18th September 2017
Articles from George Monbiot
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Parklife
Our national parks are ecological deserts, run for the benefit of a tiny minority. It’s time we reclaimed them.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th February 2018
Commonhealth
A remarkable experiment suggests that emergency admissions to hospital can be reduced by tackling loneliness
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21 February 2018
Wheel of Fortune
Only the left can break the cycle of wealth accumulation.
By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 21st February 2018
This is my opening speech at the Intelligence Squared debate at the Emmanuel Centre, London, 21st February, with Roger Scruton, Stella Creasy and Kwasi Kwarteng: The Left Has Right on Its Side.
I speak without notes, but this is the text I roughly memorised.
Resisting Resistance
A US-UK trade deal threatens to export the horrors of US corporate livestock production
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th February 2018
It looks like a proper zombie apocalypse. Bacteria we thought we had conquered are on the march again, defeating almost all attempts to slaughter them. Having broken through the outer walls, they have reached our last lines of defence. Antibiotic resistance is among the greatest threats to human health.
Revolt of the Robots
How we can find meaning, purpose and pride when the workplace no longer offers them
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th February 2018
Stepping Back from the Brink
An astonishing new field of enquiry explores the deep changes that could avert a planetary disaster
By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 31st January 2018
System Failure
Is complex society on the brink of collapse?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th January 2018
It’s a good question, but it seems too narrow. “Is Western civilisation on the brink of collapse?”, the lead article in this week’s New Scientist asks. The answer is probably. But why just Western?
The Unseen World
To be aware of the wonders of the living planet is to take on an unbearable burden of grief
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th December 2017
We Can’t Keep Eating Like This
This is the question everyone should be attending to – where is the food going to come from?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th December 2017
Brexit; the crushing of democracy by billionaires; the next financial crash; a rogue US president: none of them keeps me awake at night. This is not because I don’t care – I care very much. It’s only because I have a bigger question on my mind. Where is the food going to come from?