Stories by George Monbiot
George Monbiot is the author Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning. Read more of his writings at Monbiot.com. This article originally appeared in the Guardian.
Posted on Jun 7, 2011, Source: Monbiot.com
The idea of valuing nature as "ecosystem services" can be well-intentioned but has two big problems.
Posted on Feb 24, 2011, Source: The Guardian
Every month more evidence piles up, suggesting that online comment threads and forums are being hijacked by people who aren’t what they seem to be.
Posted on Dec 15, 2010, Source: Comment Is Free
There are daily attempts to control and influence content in the interests of the state and corporations: attempts in which money talks.
Posted on Oct 25, 2010, Source: The Guardian
The Tea Party movement is remarkable in two respects. It's one of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has seen and the biggest Astroturf operation in history.
Posted on Sep 8, 2010, Source: Comment Is Free
I used to think being a vegan was the only ethical way to eat. But an important new book suggests we can change our food system to allow for healthy meat consumption.
Posted on Aug 26, 2010, Source: Monbiot.com
How did the globe's biggest environmental problem because simply an issue of politics?
Posted on Jun 22, 2010, Source: Monbiot.com
Whenever greens or ethical investors warned them about BP's cavalier behavior, instead of thanking them, the big fund managers reacted with hostility.
Posted on Jan 18, 2010, Source: Monbiot.com
The real story of what happened to Native Americans is a story no one wants to hear, because of the challenge it presents to the way we choose to see ourselves.
Posted on Dec 15, 2009, Source: Monbiot.com
Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become.
Posted on Dec 2, 2009, Source: Monbiot.com
The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.
Posted on Nov 19, 2009, Source: Monbiot.com
The challenge of feeding 7 or 8 billion people while oil supplies are falling is stupefying. It'll be even greater if governments keep pretending that it isn't going to happen.
Posted on Oct 2, 2009, Source: Monbiot.com
It's time we had the guts to name the problem. It isn't population; it's consumption. It's not sex; it's money. It's not the poor; it's the rich.
Posted on Aug 19, 2009, Source: The Guardian
The collapse of civilization will bring us a saner world, argues Paul Kingsnorth. No, writes George Monbiot -- we can't let billions perish.
Posted on Feb 2, 2009, Source: Dissident Voice
Money consists only of "an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange."
Posted on Jan 8, 2009, Source: Monbiot.com
Shell will pour big money into alternative energy when more lucrative opportunities are blocked. Where is the government brave enough to block them?
Posted on Dec 21, 2008, Source: Monbiot.com
Until this year's report, the International Energy Agency mocked people who said that oil supplies might peak. Now they've changed their tune.
Posted on Dec 3, 2008, Source: Monbiot.com
Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the planet collapse?
Posted on Oct 31, 2008, Source: Monbiot.com
Obama has a lot to offer, but until our education system is fixed or religious fundamentalism withers, anti-intellectuals will flaunt their ignorance.
Posted on Oct 15, 2008, Source: The Guardian
The financial crisis at least affords us an opportunity to now rethink our catastrophic ecological trajectory.
Posted on Aug 28, 2008, Source: Monbiot.com
A new wave of food colonialism is taking food from the mouths of the poor.
Posted on Aug 1, 2008, Source: The Guardian
By failing to disarm and breaking the rules when it suits them, nuclear states are driving proliferation as much as Ahmadinejad is.
Posted on Jun 12, 2008, Source: Monbiot.com
Fair trade might now be necessary not only as a means of redistributing income, but also to feed the world.
Posted on Apr 18, 2008, Source: Monbiot.com
It's better for the planet to avoid eating meat, but the reality is we have to make it more sustainable for people who don't want to be vegetarians.
Posted on Feb 21, 2008, Source: Monbiot.com
A major environmental UK report explains how human life can be priced and exchanged for goods and services.
Posted on Feb 12, 2008, Source: Monbiot.com
Yes, but it involves a new generation of biofuels that are an environmental disaster.
Posted on Jan 31, 2008, Source: Comment Is Free
Some blame the poor for growing pressure on the world's resources, but the wealthy West takes the lion's share.
Posted on Dec 17, 2007, Source: Comment Is Free
America will keep on wrecking climate talks as long as those with vested interests in oil and gas fund its political system.
Posted on Dec 12, 2007, Source: Monbiot.com
All the talk in Bali about cutting carbon means nothing while ever more oil and coal are being extracted and burned.
Posted on Dec 1, 2007, Source: Comment Is Free
When will the US and the UK tell the truth about Israel's nuclear weapons?
Posted on Nov 10, 2007, Source: Monbiot.com
If the governments promoting biofuels do not reverse their policies, the humanitarian impact will be greater than that of the Iraq war.
Posted on Nov 1, 2007, Source: Monbiot.com
How else will the destructive effects of growth be stopped?
Posted on Aug 28, 2007, Source: Comment Is Free
Neoliberalism demands minimal taxes, the dismantling of public services and social security and union busting to make the elite even richer, while leaving everyone else to sink or swim.
Posted on Jul 12, 2007, Source: Monbiot.com
New reports issued by the IPCC might be absurdly optimistic about the pace of melting ice caps and rising sea levels.
Posted on Jul 5, 2007, Source: Monbiot.com
Everywhere they go, the games become an excuse for eviction and displacement -- they have become a license for land grabs. Also, watching the Olympics can make you lazy.
Posted on May 2, 2007, Source: South End Press
We know that climate change is happening. But can it be stopped? George Monbiot's book "Heat" shows how it can.
Posted on Feb 17, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The English author charges that infatuation with the 9/11 conspiracy film Loose Change turns opponents of the Bush government into "gibbering idiots."
Posted on Dec 18, 2006, Source: The Guardian
You might have imagined that every possible means of inflicting pain had already been devised. But never underestimate the human capacity for invention. United States interrogators have found a new way of destroying a human being.
Posted on Sep 1, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A prominent scientist's idea to re-engineer the atmosphere in order to cool the earth could be as dangerous as climate change.
Posted on Jun 30, 2006, Source: AlterNet
We need omega-3 oils for our brains to function properly. Yet we are rapidly destroying the only source of these oils -- the world's fisheries.
Posted on Jun 14, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Shell Oil and British Petroleum are trying to fool the public into thinking they've gone green. We're not buying it.
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