George Monbiot Quotes

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• There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave…
• ...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.
• 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 to be as…
• Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.
• It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it…
• When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop…
• The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been…
• Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on…
• Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?
• If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against…
• The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights, filling the kettle,…
• The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend…
• Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.
• In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair
• Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.
• Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.
• The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we…
• So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost…
• Until now I believed that the nation which has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong.…
• Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more

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