This Stinks
Our rivers and seas are being transformed into open sewers by greedy business and useless governments.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th July 2021
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Extinction’s Collaborators
How the media stoked the climate crisis.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th July 2021
Yes, we should rake over the coals. And the oil, and the gas. Democratic accountability means remembering who helped to stoke the climate crisis. We should hold the fossil fuel companies to account.
The Erosion of Memory
A famine is being forced on the people of Tigray, the scene of one of the world’s greatest environmental success stories.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th June 2021
The Home Front
People who own second homes cause homelessness and community death. Yet the government rewards them with lavish subsidies and tax breaks.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd June 2021
How big would our housing crisis be if it were not for second homes? It’s a question almost no one in public life wants to ask, let alone answer. But it becomes more urgent every day.
Absolute Zero
Every new climate pledge is an attempt to distract people from the failed ones it replaces.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th May 2021
Borderline
The government has gone to extreme lengths to close our borders to refugees and people seeking work, yet has left them wide open to Covid-19.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th May 2021
Once again, through gross neglect, the government is in danger of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Its astonishing dithering over the Indian variant of Covid-19 sustains its unbroken record of incompetence and procrastination.
Nothing Works Any More
When we get ripped off by con artists, in most cases we no longer have any recourse. It’s the result of disastrous political choices.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th May 2021
Breaking Point
The end of the United Kingdom is a prospect we should welcome.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th May 2021
The Sleep of Reason
Far from holding the government to account, as it claims, most of the media was fast asleep while massive scandals brewed.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th April 2021
Oil Spots
The Science Museum’s new exhibition on climate breakdown is funded by an oil company. What could possibly go wrong?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st April 2021