The Day I Became a Vegan
The extraordinary sequence of events that changed my diet
A 5-minute video with George Monbiot for Double Down News
Articles from George Monbiot
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A Corporation in Human Form
What drives Donald Trump – and the rest of the psychopathic political class
A 5-minute video with George Monbiot, by Double Down News, 7th August 2017
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
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?