We should seek to love our lives and live fully, but not to extend them indefinitely. We should love our children exuberantly,… — 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
What I love about natural climate solutions is that we should be doing all these things anyway. Instead of making painful choices… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere? — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
It does not matter whether we burn fossil fuels with malice or with love. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, it… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
In talking about my cancer with family and friends, I feel the love that I know will get me through this. The… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves. — 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
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