Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
One-planet living means not only seeking to reduce our own consumption, but also mobilising against the system that promotes the great tide… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Only one of the many life support systems on which we depend - soils, aquifers, rainfall, ice, the pattern of winds and… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
While arguments rage about plant- versus meat-based diets, new technologies will soon make them irrelevant. Before long, most of our food will… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot:… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The notions that nature exists to serve us; that its value consists of the instrumental benefits we can extract; that this value… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
When I kayak in Cardigan Bay, in Wales, what I hope to find above all else is dolphins. Sometimes I do, and… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
If we stop dragging trawls and dredges through it, the life of the seas would recover with astonishing speed. Because most marine… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I became an environmentalist because I love the living world, but I spend much of my life thinking about electricity, industrial processes… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The government argues that without a price, the living world is accorded no value, so irrational decisions are made. By costing nature,… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I have tried to keep my eco-anxiety at bay, to box it into my working life. But every month this becomes more… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“To seek enlightenment, intellectual or spiritual; to do good; to love and be loved; to create and to teach: these are the… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more — 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
