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Commentary Monbiot: What Links The Banking Crisis And The Volcano?

Commentary, April, 21 2010 George Monbiot
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We rely globally on over-complex, over-strained systems. Act now, or wait for the much more brutal corrective of nature.

Commentary Monbiot: Wanted: Tony Blair for war crimes. Arrest him and claim your reward

Commentary, January, 31 2010 George Monbiot
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Wanted: Tony Blair for war crimes. Arrest him and claim your reward

Znet Article Monbiot: If You Want To Know Who's To Blame For Copenhagen, Look To The US Senate

Znet Article, December, 22 2009 George Monbiot
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The last time global negotiations collapsed like this was in Doha, in 2001. After the trade talks fell apart, the World Trade Organization assured delegates that there was nothing to fear: they would move to Mexico, where a deal would be done. The...

Commentary Monbiot: This Is Bigger Than Climate Change. It Is A Battle To Redefine Humanity

Commentary, December, 17 2009 George Monbiot
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This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue livi...

Znet Article Monbiot: Mr Obama, Here's Your Copenhagen Speech

Znet Article, December, 17 2009 George Monbiot
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Everyone seems to be waiting for someone to break the dam. And everyone knows who that someone is. Because of the size and weight of the United States, and the moral power invested in the current president, it is Barack Obama, and Barack Obama alo...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Most Urgent Threat to World Peace Is … Canada

Znet Article, December, 09 2009 George Monbiot
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The immediate threat to the global effort to sustain a peaceful and stable world comes not from Saudi Arabia or Iran or China. It comes from Canada. How could that be true?

Commentary Monbiot: We Cannot Fight Climate With Consumerism

Commentary, November, 09 2009 George Monbiot
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The 'licensing effect': Researchers have found that buying green can establish the moral credentials that license subsequent bad behaviour.

Znet Article Monbiot: A Millionaire with a Super Yacht Is a Larger Strain on Resources Than Hundreds of Peasant Families

Znet Article, October, 04 2009 George Monbiot
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It's time we had the guts to name the problem. It isn't population; it's consumption. It's not sex; it's money. It's not the poor; it's the rich.

Commentary Monbiot: The Busybody State

Commentary, August, 05 2009 George Monbiot
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Is it paranoia, or are they really out to get us? Most of the time it's paranoia. Every week I'm approached by people whispering about vapour trails from planes being used to control our minds, free energy devices suppressed by oil companies or mi...

Commentary Monbiot: Pulling Yourself Off the Ground By Your Whiskers

Commentary, July, 17 2009 George Monbiot
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Here is the simple mathematical reason why large scale carbon offsets can't work

Commentary Monbiot: Blue Desert

Commentary, June, 04 2009 George Monbiot
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I live a few miles from Cardigan Bay. Whenever I can get away, I take my kayak down to the beach and launch it through the waves. Often I take a handline with me, in the hope of catching some mackeral or pollock. On the water, sometimes five kilom...

Commentary Monbiot: The Real Expenses Scandal

Commentary, June, 01 2009 George Monbiot
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For a moment, my heart leapt. The headline on the front of yesterday's Daily Mail contained the words travel, scandal, extortionate and £6.2. I imagined, until I read it properly, that it referred to the £6.2bn contract to expand the M25 mot...

Commentary Monbiot: The Barbarians at the Gate

Commentary, May, 24 2009 George Monbiot
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The principal cause of man's unhappiness is that he has learnt to stay quietly in his own room. If our needs are not met, if justice is not done, it is because we are not prepared to leave our homes and agitate for change. Blaise Pascal ("the sole...

Commentary Monbiot: Captive Knowledge

Commentary, May, 13 2009 George Monbiot
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The funding for academic research has been taken over by business...

Blog Post Monbiot: How Much Should We Leave in the Ground?

Blog Post, May, 06 2009 George Monbiot
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Here are some estimates for total allowable fossil fuel and a call for a global moratorium on all new fossil fuel prospecting.

Commentary Monbiot: Printing Police Lies

Commentary, April, 26 2009 George Monbiot
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The rightwing press has briefly turned against the police, but normal service will soon resume.

Commentary Monbiot: Cross Your Fingers and Carry On

Commentary, April, 17 2009 George Monbiot
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Why does the government refuse to make contingency plans for peak oil?

Znet Article Monbiot: An Attack of the Bellamoids

Znet Article, April, 11 2009 George Monbiot
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James Lovelock says the government's enthusiasm for wind farms approaches fascism. What is he on about?

Commentary Monbiot: Plastic Fetish

Commentary, April, 10 2009 George Monbiot
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Do you remember that unspeakably naff designer accessory, "I'm Not a Plastic Bag"? The "design", by Anya Hindmarch, involved thinking up the gauchest slogan ever contrived then printing it on a white shopping bag of the kind old ladies used in the...

Commentary Monbiot: Woodchips With Everything

Commentary, March, 29 2009 George Monbiot
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Here comes the latest utopian catastrophe...

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