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Monbiot: Manufactured Famine
Commentary, September, 10 2008
George Monbiot
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A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.
Monbiot: Hypocrites Unite
Commentary, August, 26 2008
George Monbiot
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In her new book, Not In My Name, Julie Burchill reserves her grandest fury about hypocrites for environmentalists. We are, she says, pious, sexless and contemptuous of humankind. All of us are posh and rich, and have found in environmentalism a ne...
Monbiot: Identity Politics in Climate Change Hell
Commentary, August, 24 2008
George Monbiot
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If you want a glimpse of how the movement against climate change could crumble faster than a summer snowflake, read Ewa Jasiewicz's article, published yesterday on the Guardian's Comment is Free site(1). It is a fine example of the identity politi...
Monbiot: The Magic Pudding
Commentary, August, 21 2008
George Monbiot
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It's a novel way to commit suicide. Just as Russia demonstrates what happens to former minions which annoy it, Poland agrees to host a US missile defence base. The Russians, as Poland expected, respond to this proposal by kindly offering to turn t...
Monbiot: Coal Scuttled
Znet Article, August, 17 2008
George Monbiot
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Everything now hinges on stopping coal. Whether we prevent runaway climate change largely depends on whether we keep using the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel. Unless we either leave it in the ground or leave the carbon dioxide it produces in th...
Monbiot: Picking Up the Gauntlet
Znet Article, August, 12 2008
George Monbiot
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Arthur Scargill is a brave man. He was brave to come to the climate camp last week. Though we disagreed with most of what he said, he earned our respect for his willingness to debate. He is brave to return to public life, after suffering one of th...
Monbiot: Self-Justifying Myths
Commentary, July, 29 2008
George Monbiot
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There is just one party which doesn't seem to care about the controversy created by The Great Global Warming Swindle. That is the company which broadcast it: Channel 4. In fact it seems rather proud of the fuss, and I suspect that Ofcom's damning ...
Monbiot: Censored by Money
Commentary, July, 23 2008
George Monbiot
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After every test case, the media assume the worst is over: that Britain's libel laws, designed to protect the powerful from public scrutiny, have been fanged, and freedom of speech will no longer be treated like a crime. And then it gets worse.
Monbiot: Kept Afloat on a Tide of Money
Commentary, July, 21 2008
George Monbiot
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All over the world, protesters are engaged in a heroic battle with reality. They block roads, picket fuel depots, throw missiles and turn over cars in an effort to hold it at bay. The oil is running out and governments, they insist, must do someth...
Monbiot: Green Lifeline
Commentary, July, 04 2008
George Monbiot
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A radical new idea could save the world's ecosystems. But what will it do to the economy?
Monbiot: These Objects of Contempt Are Now Our Best Chance of Feeding the World
Znet Article, June, 19 2008
George Monbiot
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Peasants are detested by both communists and capitalists - but when it comes to productivity a small farm is unbeatable...
Monbiot: Justice Undone
Commentary, June, 06 2008
George Monbiot
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I didn't get my man, but I helped to remind people what he's done.
Monbiot: Majesty, We Have Gone Mad: An open letter to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Commentary, May, 31 2008
George Monbiot
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In common with the leaders of most western nations, our prime minister is urging you to increase your production of oil. I am writing to ask you to ignore him. Like the other leaders he is delusional, and is no longer competent to make his own dec...
Monbiot: Nothing Left to Fight For
Commentary, May, 23 2008
George Monbiot
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The most rightwing government Britain has had since the Second World War does not deserve to be re-elected.
Monbiot: How to Build a Human Bomb
Commentary, May, 17 2008
George Monbiot
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When we learnt last week that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi had blown himself up in Mosul in northern Iraq, the US government presented this as a vindication of its policies. Al-Ajmi was a former inmate of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. The Pentag...
Monbiot: Anticipatory Compliance
Commentary, May, 12 2008
George Monbiot
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If you want to know how powerful Rupert Murdoch is, read the reviews of Bruce Dover's book, Rupert's Adventures in China. Well, go on, read them. You can't find any? I rest my case.
Monbiot: The Great Consolidation
Commentary, April, 30 2008
George Monbiot
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Everything is getting bigger and further away. Hospitals, post offices, schools and prisons are being "rationalised" and "consolidated". The government says that this process improves efficiency. Instead, it outsources inefficiency: we must travel...
Monbiot: The Middle East has had a secretive nuclear power in its midst for years
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
George Monbiot
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George Bush and Gordon Brown are right: there should be no nuclear weapons in the Middle East. The risk of a nuclear conflagration could be greater there than anywhere else. Any nation developing them should expect a firm diplomatic response. So w...
Monbiot: Three Million Homes?
Znet Article, April, 23 2008
George Monbiot
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It sounds preposterous: three million new homes in England alone by 2020. My instinct is to fight this project. It threatens Britain's countryside, the character of our towns, our water supplies and carbon targets. Today the Housing and Regenerati...
Monbiot: The Pleasures of the Flesh: If you care about hunger, eat less meat.
Commentary, April, 23 2008
George Monbiot
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You have probably seen the figures by now: the price of rice has risen by three-quarters in the past year, that of wheat by 130%(1). There are food crises in 37 countries. One hundred million people, according to the World Bank, could be pushed in...
