National Highways is a relic of another age, unfit for purpose, driving us towards disaster. It should be scrapped. As a rule, though there are exceptions, what improves our lives are multiple small ...

Perhaps the most important of all environmental issues is land use. Every hectare of land we use for extractive industries is a hectare that can’t support wild forests, savannahs, wetlands, natural ...

Earth systems are being rushed towards their tipping points by governments that offer us nothing but chaos. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 31 st October 2023. Can you see it yet?

It’s ridiculous that governments leave it to people like me to communicate the need for environmental action. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28 th August 2024. There are several services ...

Predatory corporations are making a mockery of natural climate solutions, as they grab land and bamboozle the public. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26 th January 2022. There is nothing ...

By appointing extremists to set the limits of free speech, the government protects powerful interests from challenge. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22 nd May 2024. It’s not hard to spot ...

The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 22nd November 2004. If human beings were without sin, we would still live in ...

What will future generations, looking back on our age, see as its monstrosities? We think of slavery, the subjugation of women, judicial torture, the murder of heretics, imperial conquest and genocide ...

This is the long version of a shorter article published on the Guardian’s website When I launched my discussion with Jonathon Porritt, I did so “in the spirit of both debate and reconciliation”. I ...

The government’s plans for clean coal are another great green scam. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 18th March 2008 “Coal is so clean and fresh that the prime minister brushes his teeth ...

For the first time, the United Kingdom’s consumer debt now exceeds our gross national product: a new report shows that we owe £1.35 trillion(1). Inspectors in the United States have discovered that 77 ...

Do Not Resuscitate. This tag should be attached to the oil, airline and car companies. Governments should provide financial support to their workers while refashioning the economy to provide new jobs ...