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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 3

> [Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/development-which-has-no-regard-for-whom-or-what-it-harms-is-not/)

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[Capacity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/capacity/)

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> [When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/when-you-warn-people-about-the-dangers-of-climate-change-they-call/)

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

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> [The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/the-corporations-are-powerful-only-because-we-have-allowed-them-to-be/)

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[Advantage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/advantage/)

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> [Places that have become agricultural deserts, trashed by giant corporations, could be reforested, drawing carbon dioxide from the air on a vast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/places-that-have-become-agricultural-deserts-trashed-by-giant/)

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[Carbon dioxide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/carbon-dioxide/)

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> [Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/deregulation-is-a-transfer-of-power-from-the-trodden-to-the-treading/)

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[Big government](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-government/)

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> [For some of Britain's most powerful people, hunting and shooting are primordial rights, and any challenge to them is treated as illegitimate.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/for-some-of-britain-s-most-powerful-people-hunting-and-shooting-are/)

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[Hunting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/)

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> [Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/even-when-nuclear-power-plants-go-horribly-wrong-they-do-less-damage/)

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[Burning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/burning/)

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> [I have lived long enough to witness the vanishing of wild mammals, butterflies, mayflies, songbirds and fish that I once feared my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/i-have-lived-long-enough-to-witness-the-vanishing-of-wild-mammals/)

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[Enough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enough/)

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> [Wildlife film-makers I know tell me that the effort to portray what looks like an untouched ecosystem becomes harder every year. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/wildlife-film-makers-i-know-tell-me-that-the-effort-to-portray-what/)

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[Animals](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animals/)

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> [If you or I had lived 500 years ago, our worldview, and the decisions we made as a result, would have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/if-you-or-i-had-lived-500-years-ago-our-worldview-and-the-decisions/)

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[Belief](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/belief/)

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> [“The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/the-problem-with-gross-domestic-product-is-the-gross-bit-there-are-no/)

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[Economics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/economics/)

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> [The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/the-problem-is-compounded-by-the-fact-that-the-connection-between/)

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[Cause](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cause/)

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> [One-planet living means not only seeking to reduce our own consumption, but also mobilising against the system that promotes the great tide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/one-planet-living-means-not-only-seeking-to-reduce-our-own/)

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[Capitalism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/capitalism/)

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> [“In managing our transport systems, our governments must constantly negotiate the paradox of mass movement. They must create a system which, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/in-managing-our-transport-systems-our-governments-must-constantly/)

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[Politics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/)

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> [The people of each generation perceive the state of the ecosystems they encountered in their childhood as normal and natural. When wildlife…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/the-people-of-each-generation-perceive-the-state-of-the-ecosystems/)

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[Animals](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animals/)

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> [Rather than allowing Roma, Travellers and homeless people to be picked off, all those of us who fear the criminalisation of trespass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/rather-than-allowing-roma-travellers-and-homeless-people-to-be-picked/)

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[Fear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fear/)

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> [As SUVs are higher and heavier, they are more likely to kill the people they hit. Driving an SUV in an urban…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/as-suvs-are-higher-and-heavier-they-are-more-likely-to-kill-the/)

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[Antisocial](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antisocial/)

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> [The struggle to save every possible species and ecosystem from the current wave of destruction is worthwhile. One day, perhaps within our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/the-struggle-to-save-every-possible-species-and-ecosystem-from-the/)

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[Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/day/)

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> [Few people younger than me know that it was once normal to see fields white with mushrooms, or rivers black with eels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/few-people-younger-than-me-know-that-it-was-once-normal-to-see-fields/)

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[Autumn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/autumn/)

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> [If our grazing land was allowed to revert to natural ecosystems, and the land currently used to grow feed for livestock was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/if-our-grazing-land-was-allowed-to-revert-to-natural-ecosystems-and/)

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[Fruit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fruit/)

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> [In talking about my cancer with family and friends, I feel the love that I know will get me through this. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/in-talking-about-my-cancer-with-family-and-friends-i-feel-the-love/)

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[Cancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cancer/)

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> [“The trouble is that people hate coaches, and for good reason. Coach travel is a dismal and humiliating experience. When I take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/the-trouble-is-that-people-hate-coaches-and-for-good-reason-coach/)

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[Coach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/coach/)

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> [Public figures talk and act as if environmental change will be linear and gradual. But the Earth's systems are highly complex, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/public-figures-talk-and-act-as-if-environmental-change-will-be-linear/)

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

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> [Healthy populations of predatory crabs and fish protect the carbon in salt marshes, as they prevent herbivorous crabs and snails wiping out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/healthy-populations-of-predatory-crabs-and-fish-protect-the-carbon-in/)

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[Fish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fish/)

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> [When I kayak in Cardigan Bay, in Wales, what I hope to find above all else is dolphins. Sometimes I do, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/when-i-kayak-in-cardigan-bay-in-wales-what-i-hope-to-find-above-all/)

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[Dolphins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dolphins/)

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> [After 12,000 years of feeding humankind, all farming except fruit and veg production is likely to be replaced by ferming: brewing microbes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/after-12-000-years-of-feeding-humankind-all-farming-except-fruit-and/)

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[Farming](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/farming/)

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> [Yes, the car is still useful - for a few people it's essential. It would make a good servant. But it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/yes-the-car-is-still-useful-for-a-few-people-it-s-essential-it-would/)

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[Car](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/car/)

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> [We can expect commercial enterprises to attempt whatever lawful ruses they can pull off. It is up to society, represented by government,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/we-can-expect-commercial-enterprises-to-attempt-whatever-lawful-ruses/)

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[Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/)

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> [What I love about natural climate solutions is that we should be doing all these things anyway. Instead of making painful choices…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/what-i-love-about-natural-climate-solutions-is-that-we-should-be/)

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[Choices](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/choices/)

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> [“To seek enlightenment, intellectual or spiritual; to do good; to love and be loved; to create and to teach: these are the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/to-seek-enlightenment-intellectual-or-spiritual-to-do-good-to-love/)

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[Buddhism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/buddhism/)

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> [For some people, it is easier to command a nation, to send thousands to their deaths in unnecessary wars, to separate children…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/for-some-people-it-is-easier-to-command-a-nation-to-send-thousands-to/)

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

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> [“All nationhood is to some extent the artificial, the product of historical accident, the convenience of tyrants and the disengagement of colonists.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/all-nationhood-is-to-some-extent-the-artificial-the-product-of/)

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[Nationhood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nationhood/)

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> [I want to be represented by people who are thoughtful, self-aware and collaborative. What would a system that elevated such people look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/i-want-to-be-represented-by-people-who-are-thoughtful-self-aware-and/)

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[Look](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/look/)

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> [The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/the-institutions-founded-to-save-succeeding-generations-from-the/)

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[Antiwar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/)

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> [The age-old mistake, which has stunted countless lives, is the assumption that because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, emotional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/the-age-old-mistake-which-has-stunted-countless-lives-is-the/)

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[Childhood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/childhood/)

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> [There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/there-is-a-tension-between-parliamentary-and-popular-sovereignty-a/)

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[Achieve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/achieve/)

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> [There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/there-is-enough-oil-in-the-ground-to-deep-fry-the-lot-of-us-and-no/)

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

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> [We should be cautious about embracing data before it is published in the academic press, and must always avoid treating correlation as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/we-should-be-cautious-about-embracing-data-before-it-is-published-in/)

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[Always](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/always/)

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> [As some of us can testify, the viciousness of the lobby groups funded by the fossil fuel industry, and the publications that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/as-some-of-us-can-testify-the-viciousness-of-the-lobby-groups-funded/)

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

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> [“Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-monbiot/thinking-like-ethical-people-dressing-like-ethical-people-decorating/)

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[172](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-172-256/)

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## George Monbiot by topic

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