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.
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 Nov 19, 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 Oct 2, 2009, Source: Monbiot.com
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 Aug 19, 2009, Source: The Guardian
Money consists only of "an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange."
Posted on Feb 2, 2009, Source: Dissident Voice
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 Jan 8, 2009, 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 21, 2008, Source: Monbiot.com
Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the planet collapse?
Posted on Dec 3, 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 31, 2008, Source: Monbiot.com
The financial crisis at least affords us an opportunity to now rethink our catastrophic ecological trajectory.
Posted on Oct 15, 2008, Source: The Guardian
A new wave of food colonialism is taking food from the mouths of the poor.
Posted on Aug 28, 2008, Source: Monbiot.com
By failing to disarm and breaking the rules when it suits them, nuclear states are driving proliferation as much as Ahmadinejad is.
Posted on Aug 1, 2008, Source: The Guardian
Fair trade might now be necessary not only as a means of redistributing income, but also to feed the world.
Posted on Jun 12, 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 Apr 18, 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 21, 2008, Source: Monbiot.com
Yes, but it involves a new generation of biofuels that are an environmental disaster.
Posted on Feb 12, 2008, Source: Monbiot.com
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, 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 17, 2007, Source: Comment Is Free
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, Source: Monbiot.com
When will the US and the UK tell the truth about Israel's nuclear weapons?
Posted on Dec 1, 2007, Source: Comment Is Free
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, Source: Monbiot.com
How else will the destructive effects of growth be stopped?
Posted on Nov 1, 2007, Source: Monbiot.com
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, Source: Comment Is Free
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, 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 Jul 5, 2007, Source: Monbiot.com
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, Source: South End Press
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: The Guardian
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, 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 30, 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.
Posted on Jun 14, 2006, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
How the tobacco industry duped both academic journals and the media.
Posted on Feb 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
Climate change denial, as David Bellamy's claims show, is based on pure hocus pocus.
Posted on May 14, 2005, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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