Stories by George Monbiot

How else will the destructive effects of growth be stopped?

New reports issued by the IPCC might be absurdly optimistic about the pace of melting ice caps and rising sea levels.

We know that climate change is happening. But can it be stopped? George Monbiot's book "Heat" shows how it can.

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.

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.

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.

How the tobacco industry duped both academic journals and the media.

We now know napalm and phosphorus bombs have been dropped on Iraqis; what are we going to do about it?

Climate change denial, as David Bellamy's claims show, is based on pure hocus pocus.

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.

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.

While many argue that the decrease in human population will damage the world's economy, a noted scientist counts it a blessing.

Five POWs are mistreated in Iraq and the U.S. cries foul. What about Guantanamo Bay?

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.

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.