Immense wealth translates automatically into immense environmental impacts, regardless of the intentions of those who possess it. — George Monbiot Environmental Copy Share Image
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. — George Monbiot Business Copy Share Image
As a child and young adult, I delighted in being able to identify almost any wild plant or animal. — George Monbiot Animal Copy Share Image
In politics, almost everywhere we see what looks like the externalisation of psychic wounds or deficits. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians. — George Monbiot Atheism Copy Share Image
Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters. — George Monbiot Encounters Copy Share Image
“Those who seek to drag heaven down to earth are destined only to engineer a hell.” — George Monbiot Heaven Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial. — George Monbiot Change Copy Share Image
The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
As Dutch elm disease spread across Britain in the 1970s, the country fell into mourning. When the sentinel trees that framed our… — George Monbiot Conversation 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… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
When you are diagnosed with prostate cancer, your condition is ranked on the Gleason Score, which measures its level of aggression. Mine… — George Monbiot Aggression Copy Share Image
Farmfree production promises a far more stable and reliable food supply that can be grown anywhere, even in countries without farmland. It… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
If we stop dragging trawls and dredges through it, the life of the seas would recover with astonishing speed. Because most marine… — George Monbiot Animals Copy Share Image
We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest… — George Monbiot Abundance Copy Share Image
Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and… — George Monbiot Air pollution 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… — George Monbiot Climate Copy Share Image
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 Breakdown Copy Share Image
Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if… — George Monbiot Business Copy Share Image
“Confronted with the twin disasters of climate change and an impending oil peak, it is hard to see how anyone could justify… — George Monbiot Change 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… — George Monbiot Advertising 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… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I believe that anyone who wants to stand in a national election should receive a course of psychotherapy. Completing the course should… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
While open-access journals have grown rapidly, researchers still have to read the paywalled articles in commercial journals. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I could see the point of Brexit if it meant returning power to the people. — George Monbiot Brexit Copy Share Image
Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves. — George Monbiot Humans Copy Share Image
In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair — George Monbiot Despair Copy Share Image
Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed by planners into narrow and often dangerous spaces - the afterthoughts of urban design. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Everyone should be free to learn; knowledge should be disseminated as widely as possible. — George Monbiot Education Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how many solar panels you install if you don't simultaneously shut down coal and gas burners. — George Monbiot Climate Copy Share Image
...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder whether anything is learned in conservation, or whether the big NGOs are for ever destined to follow a circular… — 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
Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth… — George Monbiot Adventure Copy Share Image
New roads carve up the countryside, dispelling peace, creating a penumbra of noise, pollution and ugliness. Their effects spread for many miles. — George Monbiot Countryside Copy Share Image
For many years, wildlife film-making has presented a pristine living world. It has created an impression of security and abundance, even in… — George Monbiot Abundance Copy Share Image
We should seek to love our lives and live fully, but not to extend them indefinitely. We should love our children exuberantly,… — George Monbiot Children Copy Share Image
Emotionally damaged men all too often rip apart their own lives, and those of their partners and children. I see both physical… — George Monbiot Character Copy Share Image
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