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
Hope lies with a great, neglected sector of the economy, through which we can create a system that is neither capitalist nor state communist.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th September 2017
Are you a statist, or a free marketeer? Do you believe that intervention should be minimised, or that state ownership and regulation should be expanded? This is our central political debate. But it is based on a mistaken premise.
Who is the world’s leading environmental vandal? The answer may surprise you.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th September 2017
Which living person has done most to destroy the natural world and the future wellbeing of humanity? Donald Trump will soon be the correct answer, when the full force of his havoc has been felt. But for now I would place another name in the frame. Angela Merkel.
The demand for perpetual economic growth, and the collective madness it provokes, leads inexorably to environmental collapse
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th September 2017
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
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