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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: 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: 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...
Monbiot: A Cunning Plot: How to grow vegetables without breaking your back
Commentary, April, 19 2008
George Monbiot
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Why do people become obsessed with growing vegetables? It's not exactly high-octane. It won't make you rich or boost your social status. But millions who can afford to buy their food devote every free moment to the kind of labour our ancestors wer...
Monbiot: Snow Jobs
Commentary, April, 14 2008
George Monbiot
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The employment figures attached to large projects tend to be codswallop.
Monbiot: Ban the Bomb - But Only in Iran
Commentary, December, 21 2007
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: Stop taking it out of the ground
Znet Article, December, 16 2007
George Monbiot
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About ten thousand delegates from more than 180 nations are meeting in Bali to attempt to extend the Kyoto Protocol Global Warming Pact beyond 2012. Opposition from the United States, Canada, and Japan is likely to stand in the way of any attempts...
Monbiot: The Road Well Travelled
Commentary, November, 19 2007
George Monbiot
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The Road Well Travelled
Monbiot: Request for Climate References
Znet Article, May, 12 2007
George Monbiot
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Request for Climate References
Monbiot: Asserting Our Right to Kill and Maim Civilians
Znet Article, November, 08 2006
George Monbiot
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The central mystery of the modern state is this. The necessary resources, both economic and political, will always be found for the purpose of terminating life. The project of preserving it will always struggle. When did you last see a soldier sha...
Monbiot: Israel responded to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah, right? Wrong
Znet Article, August, 07 2006
George Monbiot
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Whatever we think of Israel's assault on Lebanon, all of us seem to agree about one fact: that it was a response, however disproportionate, to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah. I repeated this "fact" in my last column, when I wrote that "Hizbulla...
Monbiot: Smoke Rings
Znet Article, February, 08 2006
George Monbiot
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Three weeks ago, while looking for something else, I came across one of the most extraordinary documents I have ever read. It relates to an organisation called Arise, which stands for Associates for Research into the Science of Enjoyment. Though l...
Monbiot: Worse Than Fossil Fuel
Znet Article, December, 07 2005
George Monbiot
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Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a b...
Monbiot: Struggle Against Ourselves
Znet Article, December, 05 2005
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I want to take a moment to remind you of where we have come from. For the first three million years of human history, we lived according to circumstance. Our lives were ruled by the happenstances of ecology. We existed, as all animals do, in ...
Monbiot: Protesters as Criminals
Znet Article, October, 04 2005
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"We are trying to fight 21st-century crime - antisocial behaviour, drug-dealing, binge drinking, organised crime - with 19th-century methods as if we still lived in the time of Dickens". Tony Blair, 27th September 2005.(1) "Down poured the wine l...
Monbiot: The Man Who Betrayed the Poor
Znet Article, September, 06 2005
George Monbiot
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Two months have not elapsed since the G8 summit, and already almost everything has turned to ashes. Even the crustiest sceptics have been shocked by the speed with which its promises have been broken. It is true that they didn't amount to much. T...
Monbiot: How to Stop Civil War
Znet Article, August, 30 2005
George Monbiot
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Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow of occupation. Whatever the parliamentarians in Iraq do to try to prevent total meltdown, their efforts are compromised by the fact that their power grows from the barrel of someone else's gun. Whe...
Monbiot: Africa's New Best Friends
Znet Article, July, 07 2005
George Monbiot
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I began to realise how much trouble we were in when Hilary Benn, the secretary of state for international development, announced that he would be joining the Make Poverty History march on Saturday. What would he be chanting, I wondered? "Down with...
