News

A massive new road scheme will solve precisely nothing, while costing the Earth. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24 th June 2025. There appear to be two main determinants of what ...
The meat industry’s misinformation tactics are even worse than the fossil fuel industry’s. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14 th December 2023. Everything that makes campaigning against ...
Our survival depends on piercing the glassy surface of distraction, and ceasing to obey. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30 th October 2021. There is a myth about human beings that ...
In the first of a series of columns about possible solutions, I explore how commons could transform society and the distribution of wealth. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14 th December ...
System change is – and has always been – our only realistic means of defending the living planet. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19 th July 2022. Can we talk about it now?
Self-deprecating, too liberal for their own good, today’s progressives stand back and watch, hands over their mouths, as the social vivisectionists of the right slice up a living society to see if its ...
An interview with The Ink, about where we are, how we got here and where we need to go. George Monbiot, interviewed by The Ink, 9th July 2024 TI: Can you walk us through how you define neoliberalism” ...
Make America Wait Again. That’s what Donald Trump’s energy policy amounts to. Stop all the clocks, put the technological revolution on hold, ensure that the transition from fossil fuels to clean power ...
How economic power leads inexorably to environmental destruction. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 29 th November 2023. Don’t they have children? Don’t they have grandchildren?
Most of our dysfunctions are caused by pandering to the rich. The way governments have allowed democracy to be eroded by lobbyists (including politicians with lucrative private interests); the ...
Head of History, Science and Religion, Channel 4 Letter from George Monbiot to Hamish Mykura, 16th March 2007. Dear Hamish, I deeply regret your attempt on the Today programme on Wednesday to use my ...