The latest science suggests that preventing runaway climate change means total decarbonisation. By George Monbiot. George Bush is behaving like a furious defaulter whose home is about to be repossessed. Smashing the porcelain, ripping the doors off their hinges, he is determined that there will be nothing worth owning by ... keep reading
Written by George Monbiot this week, about Climate Change, Environmental Disasters, Politics, Pollution
A proposal for slowing down politics by George Monbiot The problem is simply stated. As Gordon Brown - discussing what he perceives to be an improvement in his political fortunes - says, “an hour is a long time in politics.”(1) (It used to be a week, but everything is speeding up ... keep reading
Written by George Monbiot last month, about Climate Change, Politics
The economic crisis is petty by comparison to the nature crunch. But they have the same cause, by George Monbiot This is nothing. Well, nothing by comparison to what’s coming. The financial crisis for which we must now pay so heavily prefigures the real collapse, when humanity bumps against ... keep reading
Written by George Monbiot in October, about Climate Change, Economics, Environmental Disasters, Finance, Politics
Another set of corporations is pressing for public money. Governments should let them die by George Monbiot While all eyes were fixed on the banking bail-out, a bucketload of public money was quietly sloshed into the pockets of another undeserving cause. Last week, George Bush agreed to lend $25bn to ... keep reading
Written by George Monbiot in October, about Economics, Finance, Industry, Politics, Transport
A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own, by George Monbiot I feel almost shy about writing this column. It contains no revelations, no call to arms. No one gets savaged: well, only mildly. The subject is almost inconsequential ... keep reading
Written by George Monbiot in September, about Agriculture & Food
Do you want to save the biosphere or boost your own brand of politics? You can’t do both by George Monbiot If you want a glimpse of how the movement against climate change could crumble faster than a summer snowflake, read Ewa Jasiewicz’s article, published on the Guardian ... keep reading
Written by George Monbiot in September, about Climate Change, Economics, Philosophy & Religion, Politics, Protest
A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor by George Monbiot In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis tells the story of the famines that sucked the guts out of India in the 1870s. The hunger began when a drought, caused by ... keep reading
Written by George Monbiot in August, about Agriculture & Food, Politics
At least we have some ideals to fall short of by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. In her new book, Not In My Name, Julie Burchill reserves her grandest fury about hypocrites for environmentalists. We are, she says, pious, sexless and contemptuous of ... keep reading
Written by George Monbiot in August, about Media, Philosophy & Religion, Politics (4 comments)
The climate camp outside the Kingsnorth power station is contesting the biggest issue of them all by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. As soon as I have finished this column I will jump on the train to Kent. Last year Al Gore remarked ... keep reading
Written by George Monbiot in August, about Coal & Oil, Politics, Protest
A cunning new loophole has wrecked the government’s Climate Change Bill by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. For the past two years I have been fretting over a mystery. Though Labour seems to have done everything possible to ensure that it stays ... keep reading
Written by George Monbiot in August, about Climate Change, Emissions, Politics
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