People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Technological change is essential, but to a natural historian it often feels cold and distancing. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“Confronted with the twin disasters of climate change and an impending oil peak, it is hard to see how anyone could justify… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Public figures talk and act as if environmental change will be linear and gradual. But the Earth's systems are highly complex, and… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I believe that anyone who wants to stand in a national election should receive a course of psychotherapy. Completing the course should… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Until now I believed that the nation which has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States.… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use to feed… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“The wealth creators of neoliberal mythology are some of the most effective wealth destroyers the world has ever seen.” — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I might find myself standing, transfixed, by the roadside, watching a sparrowhawk hunting among the bushes, astonished that other people could ignore it. But… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Even when political reporting is not reduced to personality, political photography is. An article might offer depth and complexity, but is illustrated with a… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
David Cameron's government criminalised squatting in empty homes. This too was previously a civil matter. Thousands of homeless people found themselves on the wrong… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
If I could turn back the clock, magically deleting my prostate cancer, the surgery I needed and its complications, would I do so? It… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
