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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...
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...
Monbiot: Captive Knowledge
Commentary, May, 13 2009
George Monbiot
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The funding for academic research has been taken over by business...
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.
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.
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...
Monbiot: Woodchips With Everything
Commentary, March, 29 2009
George Monbiot
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Here comes the latest utopian catastrophe...
Monbiot: The Christopher Booker prize: our man in Michigan
Blog Post, February, 13 2009
George Monbiot
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Christopher Booker has a major contender: columnist, John Tomlinson, from Flint, Michigan
Monbiot: A Better Way to Make Money
Commentary, January, 29 2009
George Monbiot
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Here's how we could solve the credit crunch without giving anything to the banks.
Monbiot: Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Commentary, January, 21 2009
George Monbiot
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How did Marxist class warriors end up fighting for the bosses' right to fly?
Monbiot: Shell's Game
Commentary, January, 12 2009
George Monbiot
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Why good people do bad things...
Monbiot: At Last, A Date
Commentary, December, 22 2008
George Monbiot
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For the first time, the International Energy Agency has produced a date for peak oil. And it's not reassuring.
Monbiot: One Shot Left
Commentary, November, 26 2008
George Monbiot
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The latest science suggests that preventing runaway climate change means total decarbonisation.
Monbiot: Clearing Up This Mess
Commentary, November, 19 2008
George Monbiot
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John Maynard Keynes had the answer to the crisis we're now facing; but it was blocked and then forgotten.
Monbiot: This Is What Denial Does
Commentary, October, 16 2008
George Monbiot
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The economic crisis is petty by comparison to the nature crunch. But they have the same cause.
Monbiot: Congress Confronts Its Contradictions
Commentary, October, 01 2008
George Monbiot
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They baled out of the bail-out, but the money will still have to come from us. It always has.
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: 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: 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: 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...
