George Monbiot

Those who deny their own feelings tend to deny other people's.

— George Monbiot

Defending the planet means changing the world.

— George Monbiot

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

— George Monbiot

Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the…

— George Monbiot

“The wealth creators of neoliberal mythology are some of the most effective wealth destroyers the world has ever seen.”

— George Monbiot

The Enlightenment ideal, which all universities claim to endorse, is that everyone should think for themselves.

— George Monbiot

“Rewilding is not about abandoning civilization but about enhancing it. It is to ‘love not man the less, but Nature more’.”

— George Monbiot

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

— George Monbiot

There are, I believe, three steps to overcoming fear: name it, normalise it, socialise it.

— George Monbiot

Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?

— George Monbiot

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

— George Monbiot

Sometimes I wonder whether anything is learned in conservation, or whether the big NGOs are for ever destined to follow a circular…

— George Monbiot

...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and…

— George Monbiot

We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the…

— George Monbiot

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest…

— George Monbiot

If we stop dragging trawls and dredges through it, the life of the seas would recover with astonishing speed. Because most marine…

— George Monbiot

Farmfree production promises a far more stable and reliable food supply that can be grown anywhere, even in countries without farmland. It…

— George Monbiot

When you are diagnosed with prostate cancer, your condition is ranked on the Gleason Score, which measures its level of aggression. Mine…

— George Monbiot

People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is…

— George Monbiot

We are often told that curtailing the freedom of business is coercive and undemocratic. But by what democratic principle should corporations and…

— George Monbiot

There's nothing good about ash dieback, but there is one useful thing that could be done: wherever possible, leave the dead trees…

— George Monbiot

Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot:…

— George Monbiot

The justification for early boarding is based on a massive but common misconception. Because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough,…

— George Monbiot

Rainforests are not confined to the tropics: a good definition is forest wet enough to support epiphytes - plants that grow on…

— George Monbiot

Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful…

— George Monbiot

Until now I believed that the nation which has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States.…

— George Monbiot

Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears…

— George Monbiot

We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials.…

— George Monbiot

“[John Clare's] father was a casual farm labourer, his family never more than a few days' wages from the poorhouse. Clare himself,…

— George Monbiot

Like coal, capitalism has brought many benefits. But, like coal, it now causes more harm than good.

— George Monbiot

Never underestimate the power of intrinsic values. They inspire every struggle for a better world.

— George Monbiot

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

— George Monbiot

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

— George Monbiot

Immense wealth translates automatically into immense environmental impacts, regardless of the intentions of those who possess it.

— George Monbiot

The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim.

— George Monbiot

Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more

— George Monbiot

Technological change is essential, but to a natural historian it often feels cold and distancing.

— George Monbiot

There is plenty of housing - for the rich. But a series of outrageous policies ensure that it remains inaccessible to the…

— George Monbiot

Regardless of what we consume, the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth's living systems.

— George Monbiot

Successful movements also need an organisational model that allows them to keep growing.

— George Monbiot