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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
