Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be… — George Monbiot Change Copy Share Image
The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the… — George Monbiot Advantage Copy Share Image
Places that have become agricultural deserts, trashed by giant corporations, could be reforested, drawing carbon dioxide from the air on a vast… — George Monbiot Carbon dioxide Copy Share Image
Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate… — George Monbiot Big government Copy Share Image
For some of Britain's most powerful people, hunting and shooting are primordial rights, and any challenge to them is treated as illegitimate.… — George Monbiot Hunting Copy Share Image
Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I have lived long enough to witness the vanishing of wild mammals, butterflies, mayflies, songbirds and fish that I once feared my… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Wildlife film-makers I know tell me that the effort to portray what looks like an untouched ecosystem becomes harder every year. They… — George Monbiot Animals Copy Share Image
If you or I had lived 500 years ago, our worldview, and the decisions we made as a result, would have been… — George Monbiot Belief Copy Share Image
“The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if… — George Monbiot Economics Copy Share Image
The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights,… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
One-planet living means not only seeking to reduce our own consumption, but also mobilising against the system that promotes the great tide… — George Monbiot Capitalism Copy Share Image
“In managing our transport systems, our governments must constantly negotiate the paradox of mass movement. They must create a system which, for… — George Monbiot Politics Copy Share Image
The people of each generation perceive the state of the ecosystems they encountered in their childhood as normal and natural. When wildlife… — George Monbiot Animals Copy Share Image
Rather than allowing Roma, Travellers and homeless people to be picked off, all those of us who fear the criminalisation of trespass… — George Monbiot Fear Copy Share Image
As SUVs are higher and heavier, they are more likely to kill the people they hit. Driving an SUV in an urban… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The struggle to save every possible species and ecosystem from the current wave of destruction is worthwhile. One day, perhaps within our… — George Monbiot Day Copy Share Image
Few people younger than me know that it was once normal to see fields white with mushrooms, or rivers black with eels… — George Monbiot Autumn Copy Share Image
If our grazing land was allowed to revert to natural ecosystems, and the land currently used to grow feed for livestock was… — George Monbiot Fruit Copy Share Image
In talking about my cancer with family and friends, I feel the love that I know will get me through this. The… — George Monbiot Cancer Copy Share Image
“The trouble is that people hate coaches, and for good reason. Coach travel is a dismal and humiliating experience. When I take… — George Monbiot Coach Copy Share Image
Public figures talk and act as if environmental change will be linear and gradual. But the Earth's systems are highly complex, and… — George Monbiot Change Copy Share Image
Healthy populations of predatory crabs and fish protect the carbon in salt marshes, as they prevent herbivorous crabs and snails wiping out… — George Monbiot Fish Copy Share Image
When I kayak in Cardigan Bay, in Wales, what I hope to find above all else is dolphins. Sometimes I do, and… — George Monbiot Dolphins Copy Share Image
After 12,000 years of feeding humankind, all farming except fruit and veg production is likely to be replaced by ferming: brewing microbes… — George Monbiot Farming Copy Share Image
Yes, the car is still useful - for a few people it's essential. It would make a good servant. But it has… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
We can expect commercial enterprises to attempt whatever lawful ruses they can pull off. It is up to society, represented by government,… — George Monbiot Business Copy Share Image
What I love about natural climate solutions is that we should be doing all these things anyway. Instead of making painful choices… — George Monbiot Choices Copy Share Image
“To seek enlightenment, intellectual or spiritual; to do good; to love and be loved; to create and to teach: these are the… — George Monbiot Buddhism Copy Share Image
For some people, it is easier to command a nation, to send thousands to their deaths in unnecessary wars, to separate children… — George Monbiot Children Copy Share Image
“All nationhood is to some extent the artificial, the product of historical accident, the convenience of tyrants and the disengagement of colonists.” — George Monbiot Nationhood Copy Share Image
I want to be represented by people who are thoughtful, self-aware and collaborative. What would a system that elevated such people look… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million… — George Monbiot Antiwar Copy Share Image
The age-old mistake, which has stunted countless lives, is the assumption that because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, emotional… — George Monbiot Childhood Copy Share Image
There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and… — George Monbiot Climate Copy Share Image
We should be cautious about embracing data before it is published in the academic press, and must always avoid treating correlation as… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
As some of us can testify, the viciousness of the lobby groups funded by the fossil fuel industry, and the publications that… — George Monbiot Children Copy Share Image
“Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
