All George Monbiot Quotes
- 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… Climate Change
- ...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned. Airline
- 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… Any
- Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally. Burning
- 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… Abundance
- 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… Call
- 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… Antiwar
- 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… All
- Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse? Banks
- 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… Choice
- 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,… Acts
- 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… Advertising
- Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware. Choice
- In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair Defend
- Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves. Exist
- Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial. Almost Everywhere
- 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… Advantage
- 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… Ashamed
- 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.… Agreement
- Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more Chance
- Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to… Capacity
- Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere? Banks
- August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad. August
- Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope. Arise
- Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life. Conditions