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# George Monbiot

(1963)   Journalist   United Kingdom

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George Monbiot is a journalist from the United Kingdom, best known for *Heat*.

## Quick Facts About George Monbiot

Born January 27, 1963

Nationality United Kingdom

Profession Journalist

Notable works Heat

Spouse Angharad Penrhyn Jones

## About George Monbiot

He has written several books.

## Awards & Honors

Natural World Book Prize

##  Quotes by George Monbiot · Page 2

> [Immense wealth translates automatically into immense environmental impacts, regardless of the intentions of those who possess it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/immense-wealth-translates-automatically-into-immense-environmental/)

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> [If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/if-wealth-was-the-inevitable-result-of-hard-work-and-enterprise-every/)

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> [As a child and young adult, I delighted in being able to identify almost any wild plant or animal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/as-a-child-and-young-adult-i-delighted-in-being-able-to-identify/)

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> [In politics, almost everywhere we see what looks like the externalisation of psychic wounds or deficits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/in-politics-almost-everywhere-we-see-what-looks-like-the/)

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> [The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/the-christians-stole-the-winter-solstice-from-the-pagans-and/)

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[Atheism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/atheism/)

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> [Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/soil-is-an-almost-magical-substance-a-living-system-that-transforms/)

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> [“Those who seek to drag heaven down to earth are destined only to engineer a hell.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/those-who-seek-to-drag-heaven-down-to-earth-are-destined-only-to/)

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[Heaven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heaven/)

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> [Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/almost-everywhere-climate-change-denial-now-looks-as-stupid-and-as/)

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[Change](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/change/)

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> [The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/the-grim-truth-is-that-the-rich-are-able-to-live-as-they-do-only/)

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> [As Dutch elm disease spread across Britain in the 1970s, the country fell into mourning. When the sentinel trees that framed our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/as-dutch-elm-disease-spread-across-britain-in-the-1970s-the-country/)

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[Conversation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conversation/)

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> [People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/people-believe-loose-change-because-it-proposes-a-closed-world/)

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> [When you are diagnosed with prostate cancer, your condition is ranked on the Gleason Score, which measures its level of aggression. Mine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/when-you-are-diagnosed-with-prostate-cancer-your-condition-is-ranked/)

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> [Farmfree production promises a far more stable and reliable food supply that can be grown anywhere, even in countries without farmland. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/farmfree-production-promises-a-far-more-stable-and-reliable-food/)

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> [If we stop dragging trawls and dredges through it, the life of the seas would recover with astonishing speed. Because most marine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/if-we-stop-dragging-trawls-and-dredges-through-it-the-life-of-the/)

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> [We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/we-would-do-well-to-ask-why-governments-seem-to-find-it-so-easy-to/)

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> [It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/it-is-a-campaign-not-for-abundance-but-for-austerity-it-is-a-campaign/)

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> [Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/food-production-is-ripping-the-living-world-apart-fishing-and-farming/)

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> [If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/if-we-want-to-prevent-both-climate-and-ecological-catastrophes-the/)

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[Climate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/climate/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/is-the-divine-presence-a-republican-or-is-he-she-it-running-an-inter/)

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> [Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/almost-all-systems-of-economic-thought-are-premised-on-the-idea-of/)

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> [“Confronted with the twin disasters of climate change and an impending oil peak, it is hard to see how anyone could justify…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/confronted-with-the-twin-disasters-of-climate-change-and-an-impending/)

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> [The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/the-schedules-are-crammed-with-shows-urging-us-to-travel-further/)

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> [I might find myself standing, transfixed, by the roadside, watching a sparrowhawk hunting among the bushes, astonished that other people could ignore…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/i-might-find-myself-standing-transfixed-by-the-roadside-watching-a/)

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> [I believe that anyone who wants to stand in a national election should receive a course of psychotherapy. Completing the course should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/i-believe-that-anyone-who-wants-to-stand-in-a-national-election/)

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> [While open-access journals have grown rapidly, researchers still have to read the paywalled articles in commercial journals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/while-open-access-journals-have-grown-rapidly-researchers-still-have/)

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> [I could see the point of Brexit if it meant returning power to the people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/i-could-see-the-point-of-brexit-if-it-meant-returning-power-to-the/)

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> [ Like other lifeforms, we \[humans\] exist only to replicate ourselves. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/like-other-lifeforms-we-humans-exist-only-to-replicate-ourselves/)

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[Humans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/humans/)

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> [In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/in-motivating-people-to-love-and-defend-the-natural-world-an-ounce-of/)

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[Despair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/despair/)

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> [Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/change-arises-from-conviction-stop-voting-in-fear-start-voting-for/)

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> [Pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed by planners into narrow and often dangerous spaces - the afterthoughts of urban design.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/pedestrians-and-cyclists-are-squeezed-by-planners-into-narrow-and/)

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> [Everyone should be free to learn; knowledge should be disseminated as widely as possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/everyone-should-be-free-to-learn-knowledge-should-be-disseminated-as/)

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[Education](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/education/)

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> [It doesn't matter how many solar panels you install if you don't simultaneously shut down coal and gas burners.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/it-doesn-t-matter-how-many-solar-panels-you-install-if-you-don-t/)

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> [...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/every-time-someone-dies-as-a-result-of-floods-in-bangladesh-an/)

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> [Sometimes I wonder whether anything is learned in conservation, or whether the big NGOs are for ever destined to follow a circular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/sometimes-i-wonder-whether-anything-is-learned-in-conservation-or/)

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> [It does not matter whether we burn fossil fuels with malice or with love. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/it-does-not-matter-whether-we-burn-fossil-fuels-with-malice-or-with/)

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> [Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/economic-growth-is-the-aggregate-effect-of-the-quest-to-accumulate/)

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> [New roads carve up the countryside, dispelling peace, creating a penumbra of noise, pollution and ugliness. Their effects spread for many miles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/new-roads-carve-up-the-countryside-dispelling-peace-creating-a/)

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> [For many years, wildlife film-making has presented a pristine living world. It has created an impression of security and abundance, even in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/for-many-years-wildlife-film-making-has-presented-a-pristine-living/)

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[Abundance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abundance/)

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> [We should seek to love our lives and live fully, but not to extend them indefinitely. We should love our children exuberantly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/we-should-seek-to-love-our-lives-and-live-fully-but-not-to-extend/)

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[Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/)

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> [Emotionally damaged men all too often rip apart their own lives, and those of their partners and children. I see both physical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/emotionally-damaged-men-all-too-often-rip-apart-their-own-lives-and/)

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