How sea kayaking sustains me. By George Monbiot, published in the New Statesman, 26th July 2023 There’s one question I’m asked more than any other. How do you cope? Like other environmental journalists, I spend my life rolling in the excrement of humanity. Every day, I must think about the terrible things we’re doing to […]
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Instead of addressing our multiple ecological disasters, those with power are attacking wildlife defenders. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th July 2023 Several grisly bloodsports, legal or otherwise, are enjoyed in the English countryside. But none is as popular as shooting the messenger. Rather than attend to our environmental crisis, politicians, lobbyists and […]
French environmental action puts the UK to shame. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th June 2023 While we remain transfixed by a handful of needy egotists in Westminster and the crises they manufacture, across the Channel a revolution is happening. It’s a quiet, sober, thoughtful revolution, but a revolution nonetheless. France is seeking […]
Sewage pollution by the water companies is just one of the deadly attacks on our rivers. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd May 2023 I can’t help feeling a small surge of gratitude every time an environmental issue breaks the surface. That the state of England’s rivers seems at last to have become […]
How has Costa Rica managed to restore its natural wonders, while big, rich nations fail? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st April 2023 One of the world’s greatest environmental heroes doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. Though he has done more to protect the living planet than almost anyone alive, his name is […]
Pumping water from one messed-up catchment to another solves nothing. We need to fix our problems at source. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd March 2023 It’s a classic end-of-pipe solution. Rather than addressing the problem at source, it piles one problem upon another. Yet, like so many disastrous schemes, it is now […]
A self-perpetuating political spiral is blocking the easier ways of preventing environmental collapse. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 9th December 2022 There are two extraordinary facts about the convention on biological diversity, whose members are meeting in Montreal now to discuss the global ecological crisis. The first is that, of the world’s 198 […]
Liz Truss’s destruction of the fabric of our nation is not an accident. It’s the design. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th September 2022 The ecological destruction Liz Truss plans to unleash on this country is not collateral damage. It is not a byproduct of her economic programme. It’s a mark of true […]
An obsession with economic growth is driving us towards catastrophe. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th October 2022 As a founder member of the “Anti-Growth Coalition”, I’m delighted to discover how fast it has, ahem, been growing. From small beginnings on the political margins, our grouping, according to the prime minister, now ranges […]
The more destructive the business, the more likely it is to enjoy political protection. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th November 2022 In every conflict over the living world, something is being protected. And most of the time, it’s the wrong thing. The world’s most destructive industries are fiercely protected by governments. The […]