Articles by George Monbiot
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There’s a really simple way of ensuring that politics belongs to the people, not to the ultra-rich.
George Monbiot · 284 views
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There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to.
George Monbiot · 1,318 views
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The ruination of a once-thriving area of Ethiopia is the result of war and its associated crimes. The world needs to wake up.
George Monbiot · 284 views
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Academic publishers charge vast fees to access research paid for by us. Down with the knowledge monopoly racketeers
George Monbiot · 239 views
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What is the most neglected issue in politics? I would say land. Literally and metaphorically, land underlies our lives, but its ownership and control have been captured by a tiny number...
George Monbiot · 1,487 views
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The economic system is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth. It is time to design a new one.
George Monbiot · 5,756 views
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It was a moment of the kind that changes lives. At a press conference held by Extinction Rebellion last week, two of us journalists pressed the activists on whether their aims were...
George Monbiot · 2,621 views
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There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub...
George Monbiot · 406,944 views
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Matt Bruenig presents a devastating challenge to those who call themselves libertarians, and explains why they have no choice but to deny climate change and other environmental problems.
George Monbiot · 10,836 views
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By reframing the economy, Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics changes our view of who we are and where we stand.
George Monbiot · 6,570 views
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All together now.
George Monbiot · 6,807 views
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Our failure to understand the link between fame and big business made the rise of Trump inevitable
George Monbiot · 9,797 views
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We face (at least) 13 major crises, some of which are immediate. It’s time for some hard thinking about how we confront them.
George Monbiot · 7,144 views
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How a ruthless network of super-rich ideologues killed choice and destroyed people’s faith in politics
George Monbiot · 455 views
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Why should plagues of mental illness surprise us, in a world being ripped apart?
George Monbiot · 13,007 views
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Competition and individualism are forcing us into a devastating Age of Loneliness
George Monbiot · 18,123 views
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What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. The media turns us away from the issues that will determine the course of our lives, and towards topics of...
George Monbiot · 2,544 views
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The decision to leave the EU is a disaster, but also a great opportunity for renewal
George Monbiot · 1,676 views
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Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all.
George Monbiot · 60,154 views
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Crisis after crisis is being caused by a failed ideology. But it cannot be stopped without a coherent alternative.
George Monbiot · 6,716 views
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I am starting to hate the European Union. But I will vote to stay in.
George Monbiot · 1,069 views
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The hidden and remarkable story of why devastating floods keep happening.
George Monbiot · 19,418 views
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The belief that economic growth can be detached from destruction appears to be based on a simple accounting mistake.
George Monbiot · 14,294 views
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What’s the difference between Al Qaeda and Fort Benning?
George Monbiot. · 4,601 views
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In the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far), Indonesia has been blotted out by smoke. And the media.
George Monbiot · 30,961 views
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Fascinating new lines of research suggest that we are good people, tolerating bad things.
George Monbiot · 3,262 views
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While we marvel at Nasa’s discoveries, we destroy our irreplaceable natural resources – so we can buy pre-peeled bananas and smartphones for dogs
George Monbiot · 6,750 views
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Where does legitimate business end and organised crime begin?
George Monbiot · 1,178 views
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From laissez-faire economics in 18th-century India to neoliberalism in today’s Europe the subordination of human welfare to power is a brutal tradition
George Monbiot · 18,124 views
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In defending the natural world, we should be honest about our motivations – it’s love that drives us, not money.
George Monbiot · 8,905 views
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The way that meat, eggs and milk are produced is surrounded by one of our great silences, in which most people collaborate. We don’t want to know, because knowing would force anyone with...
George Monbiot · 4,178 views
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The interactions between wildlife and the physical planet are more complex and fascinating than we could ever have imagined.
George Monbiot · 4,963 views
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That didn't take long. The public interest in the state of the natural world stimulated by the winter floods receded almost as quickly as the waters did.
George Monbiot · 3,647 views
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That they are crass, brash and trashy goes without saying. But there is something in the pictures posted on Rich Kids of Instagram (and highlighted by the Guardian last week(1)) that...
George Monbiot · 5,684 views
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'One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow". That radical green pressure group PriceWaterhouseCoopers warns that even if the present rate of global decarbonisation were...
George Monbiot · 8,111 views
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Yesterday was August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.
Three things of note happened. The first is that a record Arctic ice melt had just...
George Monbiot · 5,156 views
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