War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything… — George Monbiot 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
I do not want to abandon representative democracy. I want to see it balanced by popular sovereignty, especially the variety known as… — George Monbiot Democracy Copy Share Image
If you construct political narratives around the psychodramas of politicians, even when they don't invite it, you open the way for those… — George Monbiot Game 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
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
When expressions of emotion are dangerous, and when you are constantly told that this terrible thing is being done for your own… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
History shows that attacks on general freedoms often begin with an attack on the freedom of a minority. It teaches us that… — George Monbiot Freedom Copy Share Image
In thinking about male identities, I'm struck by the inadequacy of the terms we use. The notion that men should be distant,… — George Monbiot Help Copy Share Image
I believe resilience is the most useful human quality, and I've sought to cultivate it, but in 2019 I felt my resolve… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I have tried to keep my eco-anxiety at bay, to box it into my working life. But every month this becomes more… — George Monbiot Anxiety Copy Share Image
Only one of the many life support systems on which we depend - soils, aquifers, rainfall, ice, the pattern of winds and… — George Monbiot Abundance Copy Share Image
We urgently need more trees, but we appear to believe that the only means of restoring them is planting. We have a… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Brexit, for all its likely harms, represents an opportunity to pay landowners and tenants to do something completely different, rather than spending… — George Monbiot Brexit Copy Share Image
The government argues that without a price, the living world is accorded no value, so irrational decisions are made. By costing nature,… — George Monbiot Government Copy Share Image
While some livestock farms are much better than others, there are none in this country that look like natural ecosystems. Nature has… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is… — George Monbiot Experience Copy Share Image
Landowners, farmers and gamekeepers, though they comprise a small minority of the rural population, claim to speak for everyone, and dismiss those… — George Monbiot Farmers Copy Share Image
While arguments rage about plant- versus meat-based diets, new technologies will soon make them irrelevant. Before long, most of our food will… — George Monbiot Food Copy Share Image
So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if… — George Monbiot Ashamed Copy Share Image
Surplus money allows some people to exercise inordinate power over others: in the workplace; in politics; and above all in the capture,… — George Monbiot Money Copy Share Image
Humans, the supremely social mammals, are ethical and intellectual sponges. We unconsciously absorb, for good or ill, the influences that surround us. — George Monbiot Character Copy Share Image
A central task for any campaign is to develop a narrative: a short, simple story explaining where we are, how we got… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Fear hems us in, stops us from thinking clearly, and prevents us from either challenging oppression or engaging calmly with the impersonal… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
We have a wider political and economic system in which ancient, landed power still carries immense weight. There is nothing some landowners… — George Monbiot Economic system Copy Share Image
We should continue to mobilise against the destruction of the world's great habitats, and its terrifying implications. But the most persuasive argument… — George Monbiot Destruction Copy Share Image
