George Monbiot Takes On...

George Monbiot

Featured in The Guardian.co.uk

In the first of a remarkable series of video interviews, Britain's leading green commentator, George Monbiot, charges the UN's leading climate change official, Yvo de Boer with lacking ambition for a global emissions deal, and takes him to task over expensive carbon offset schemes and his support for the US president, George Bush. (Note: This film includes stock footage from Greenpeace)

Britain's leading green commentator then tackles the International Energy Authority's chief economist, who reveals for the first time a startling and worrying prediction for the date of peak oil. Make sure to also read the peak oil feature.

And finally, George Monbiot gives the head of the countryside watchdog, the Campaign to Protect Rural England's Shaun Spiers, an unforgettable grilling, asking why it opposes windfarms - but not opencast coal mines.

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