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?
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
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?
How the waste and inefficiency of neoliberalism attacks our children’s health
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 29th November 2017
Deregulation, the government and the newspapers assure us, saves money and time and reduces frustration. That’s the theory. But, as I see every day, it doesn’t quite work like this.
The Sheffield tree massacre is one result of the monstrous, impenetrable officialdom that neoliberalism creates
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th October 2017
The scale and speed of environmental collapse is beyond imagination.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th October 2017
Which of these would you name as the world’s most pressing environmental issue? Climate breakdown, air pollution, water loss, plastic waste or urban expansion? My answer is none of the above. Almost incredibly, I believe that climate breakdown takes third place, behind two issues that receive only a fraction of the attention.
Our representative democracy is scarcely worthy of the name. 21st Century politics demands a more participatory system
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th October 2017
Some radical ideas for reshaping the economy.
By George Monbiot, published on LabourList, 16th October 2017
We should use the political space being opened by the Labour resurgence to develop a new, participatory economy
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th October 2017
Farming animals is as unsustainable as mining coal.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th October 2017