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

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

— George Monbiot

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

— George Monbiot

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

— 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

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

— George Monbiot

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

— George Monbiot

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

— George Monbiot

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

— George Monbiot

Emotionally damaged men all too often rip apart their own lives, and those of their partners and children. I see both physical…

— George Monbiot

Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the…

— George Monbiot

The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the…

— George Monbiot

When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be…

— George Monbiot

Places that have become agricultural deserts, trashed by giant corporations, could be reforested, drawing carbon dioxide from the air on a vast…

— George Monbiot

It does not matter whether we burn fossil fuels with malice or with love. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, it…

— George Monbiot

Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth…

— George Monbiot

New roads carve up the countryside, dispelling peace, creating a penumbra of noise, pollution and ugliness. Their effects spread for many miles.

— George Monbiot

Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and…

— George Monbiot

The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints…

— 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

If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— George Monbiot

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

— George Monbiot

In politics, almost everywhere we see what looks like the externalisation of psychic wounds or deficits.

— George Monbiot

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

— George Monbiot

As a child and young adult, I delighted in being able to identify almost any wild plant or animal.

— George Monbiot

Pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed by planners into narrow and often dangerous spaces - the afterthoughts of urban design.

— George Monbiot

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

— George Monbiot

It doesn't matter how many solar panels you install if you don't simultaneously shut down coal and gas burners.

— George Monbiot

Everyone should be free to learn; knowledge should be disseminated as widely as possible.

— George Monbiot

“Those who seek to drag heaven down to earth are destined only to engineer a hell.”

— George Monbiot