Stories by George Monbiot

My search for an ethical smart phone.

Emissions are rising, ice is melting and yet the response of governments is simply to pretend that none of it is happening.

Neoliberalism is not the root of the problem: it is the ideology used to justify a global grab of power, public assets and natural resources by an unrestrained elite.

It looks like scientists could have gotten the impacts of climate change on food supply wildly wrong.

There is a strong and growing body of evidence showing a link between the dreaded disease and our high sugar consumption.

There is plenty of research showing that low general intelligence in childhood predicts greater prejudice towards people of different ethnicity or sexuality in adulthood.

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.

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.

How did the globe's biggest environmental problem because simply an issue of politics?

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.

The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.

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.

Money consists only of "an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange."

Until this year's report, the International Energy Agency mocked people who said that oil supplies might peak. Now they've changed their tune.

Obama has a lot to offer, but until our education system is fixed or religious fundamentalism withers, anti-intellectuals will flaunt their ignorance.

A new wave of food colonialism is taking food from the mouths of the poor.

Fair trade might now be necessary not only as a means of redistributing income, but also to feed the world.

A major environmental UK report explains how human life can be priced and exchanged for goods and services.

Some blame the poor for growing pressure on the world's resources, but the wealthy West takes the lion's share.