Anxiety Quote by George Monbiot

If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use to feed…

— George Monbiot

“The wealth creators of neoliberal mythology are some of the most effective wealth destroyers the world has ever seen.”

— George Monbiot

The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to…

— George Monbiot

The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim.

— George Monbiot

I might find myself standing, transfixed, by the roadside, watching a sparrowhawk hunting among the bushes, astonished that other people could ignore it. But…

— George Monbiot

Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a…

— George Monbiot

Even when political reporting is not reduced to personality, political photography is. An article might offer depth and complexity, but is illustrated with a…

— George Monbiot

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

— George Monbiot

We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use…

— George Monbiot

People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable…

— George Monbiot

David Cameron's government criminalised squatting in empty homes. This too was previously a civil matter. Thousands of homeless people found themselves on the wrong…

— George Monbiot

If I could turn back the clock, magically deleting my prostate cancer, the surgery I needed and its complications, would I do so? It…

— George Monbiot