If we stop dragging trawls and dredges through it, the life of the seas would recover with astonishing speed. Because most marine animals are highly mobile during at least one stage of their development, the rewilding of the seas needs… — 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
