If commercial fishing were excluded from large areas of the sea, the total catch would be likely, paradoxically, to rise, due to… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
David Cameron's government criminalised squatting in empty homes. This too was previously a civil matter. Thousands of homeless people found themselves on… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Representative democracy is a remarkably blunt instrument. Hundreds of issues are bundled together at every election, yet the vote tends to swing… — George Monbiot Democracy Copy Share Image
While some people have rejected capitalism gladly and swiftly, I've done so slowly and reluctantly. Part of the reason was that I… — George Monbiot Capitalism Copy Share Image
Even when political reporting is not reduced to personality, political photography is. An article might offer depth and complexity, but is illustrated… — George Monbiot News 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet… — George Monbiot Capitalism Copy Share Image
Until fishing is properly regulated and contained, we should withdraw our consent. Save your plastic bags by all means, but if you… — George Monbiot Fish Copy Share Image
The notions that nature exists to serve us; that its value consists of the instrumental benefits we can extract; that this value… — George Monbiot Life Copy Share Image
I became an environmentalist because I love the living world, but I spend much of my life thinking about electricity, industrial processes… — George Monbiot Civil engineering Copy Share Image
A large body of literature suggests that wellbeing is intimately linked to attachment - not only to other people, but also to… — George Monbiot Attachment Copy Share Image
“I could not continue just sitting and writing, looking after my daughter and my house, running merely to stay fit, pursuing only… — George Monbiot Children 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
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
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
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
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
