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.
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 Apr 18, 2008
A major environmental UK report explains how human life can be priced and exchanged for goods and services.
Posted on Feb 21, 2008
Yes, but it involves a new generation of biofuels that are an environmental disaster.
Posted on Feb 12, 2008
Some blame the poor for growing pressure on the world's resources, but the wealthy West takes the lion's share.
Posted on Jan 31, 2008
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 17, 2007
All the talk in Bali about cutting carbon means nothing while ever more oil and coal are being extracted and burned.
Posted on Dec 12, 2007
When will the US and the UK tell the truth about Israel's nuclear weapons?
Posted on Dec 1, 2007
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 10, 2007
How else will the destructive effects of growth be stopped?
Posted on Nov 1, 2007
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 Aug 28, 2007
New reports issued by the IPCC might be absurdly optimistic about the pace of melting ice caps and rising sea levels.
Posted on Jul 12, 2007
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 Jul 5, 2007
We know that climate change is happening. But can it be stopped? George Monbiot's book "Heat" shows how it can.
Posted on May 2, 2007
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 Feb 17, 2007
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 Dec 18, 2006
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 Sep 1, 2006
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 30, 2006
Shell Oil and British Petroleum are trying to fool the public into thinking they've gone green. We're not buying it.
Posted on Jun 14, 2006
There is no way to halt global warming and continue traveling long distances at high speeds. The only solution is to stop flying in airplanes.
Posted on Mar 1, 2006
Radio frequency identification tags are another means by which the barriers between citizens and the state are being gradually eroded.
Posted on Feb 23, 2006
How the tobacco industry duped both academic journals and the media.
Posted on Feb 13, 2006
Behind the revelations about white phosphorus is the larger reality that every step leading from the invasion of Iraq to the siege of Falluja was illegal.
Posted on Nov 29, 2005
We now know napalm and phosphorus bombs have been dropped on Iraqis; what are we going to do about it?
Posted on Nov 16, 2005
Christian fundamentalists claim religion is associated with lower rates of violence, teen pregnancy and divorce. A new study says they couldn't be more wrong.
Posted on Oct 13, 2005
Climate change denial, as David Bellamy's claims show, is based on pure hocus pocus.
Posted on May 14, 2005
If you think the UN's oil-for-food program was leaky, take a look at the Coalition Provisional Authority's oil-for-reconstruction scheme.
Posted on Feb 10, 2005
If the money promised to the victims of the tsunami falls far short of the amounts required, it is partly because of other priorities, namely the war on Iraq.
Posted on Jan 5, 2005
The Bush administration's attempt to sabotage the climate talks in Buenos Aires follows an established pattern of self-destruction.
Posted on Dec 21, 2004
Sure, taxing or banning SUVs would restrict people's 'freedom of choice.' The same argument could be made about the laws preventing citizens from carrying rocket-propelled grenades to work.
Posted on Jul 29, 2004
Without cheap oil, the only safe option is to start dismantling our complex economies -- can you picture Bush or Kerry doing that anytime soon?
Posted on Jun 22, 2004
While many argue that the decrease in human population will damage the world's economy, a noted scientist counts it a blessing.
Posted on Jun 1, 2004
Members of the Bush administration now see themselves as priests of a divine mission to rid the world of its demons
Posted on Jul 30, 2003
Five POWs are mistreated in Iraq and the U.S. cries foul. What about Guantanamo Bay?
Posted on Mar 26, 2003
The real problem with engineered crops is not so much the health risks, but that they permit the big biotech companies to place a padlock on the food chain.
Posted on Nov 21, 2002
For the past eight years, the United States has done everything in its power to prevent a resolution of the Iraq situation, and thereby justify the upcoming war.
Posted on Oct 8, 2002
If the world's transnational corporations have their way, the Earth Summit in Johannesburg will not only fail to tackle the ecological crisis, it may make it worse.
Posted on Aug 22, 2002
Britain is transporting vast amounts of plutonium across the ocean as part of a commercial deal with Japan. It's a recipe for nuclear disaster.
Posted on Jun 13, 2002
Biotech companies are creating false citizens to try to change the way we think. They call it Internet lobbying.
Posted on May 29, 2002
