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- Wednesday, Jun 09, 2010
Commentary Matt Ridley’s irrational theories remain unchanged by his own disastrous experiment. -
- Wednesday, Apr 21, 2010
Commentary We rely globally on over-complex, over-strained systems. Act now, or wait for the much more brutal corrective of nature. -
- Sunday, Jan 31, 2010
Commentary Wanted: Tony Blair for war crimes. Arrest him and claim your reward -
- Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Thursday, Dec 17, 2009
Commentary 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 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... -
- Wednesday, Dec 09, 2009
ZNet Article 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? -
- Monday, Nov 09, 2009
Commentary The 'licensing effect': Researchers have found that buying green can establish the moral credentials that license subsequent bad behaviour. -
- Sunday, Oct 04, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Wednesday, Aug 05, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Friday, Jul 17, 2009
Commentary Here is the simple mathematical reason why large scale carbon offsets can't work -
- Thursday, Jun 04, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Monday, Jun 01, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Sunday, May 24, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Commentary The funding for academic research has been taken over by business... -
- Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Blog Post Here are some estimates for total allowable fossil fuel and a call for a global moratorium on all new fossil fuel prospecting. -
- Sunday, Apr 26, 2009
Commentary The rightwing press has briefly turned against the police, but normal service will soon resume. -
- Friday, Apr 17, 2009
Commentary Why does the government refuse to make contingency plans for peak oil? -
- Saturday, Apr 11, 2009
ZNet Article James Lovelock says the government's enthusiasm for wind farms approaches fascism. What is he on about? -
- Friday, Apr 10, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Sunday, Mar 29, 2009
Commentary Here comes the latest utopian catastrophe... -
- Monday, Mar 16, 2009
Commentary The magic numbers spin before our eyes. No one can grasp the scale of the hand-outs, or understand how public money which didn't exist - could never exist - for hospitals or schools or public toilets begins to flow as soon as the bankers fall to t... -
- Saturday, Mar 14, 2009
Commentary The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys on human lives. -
- Monday, Mar 02, 2009
Commentary You don't have to be a nationalist, or English, to accept the case for an English parliament. -
- Friday, Feb 13, 2009
Blog Post Christopher Booker has a major contender: columnist, John Tomlinson, from Flint, Michigan -
- Thursday, Feb 12, 2009
Commentary A new mobilisation could revitalise politics in the UK - but only if you get involved. -
- Wednesday, Feb 04, 2009
Commentary This is how a government elected to stamp out sleaze became worse than its predecessor. -
- Thursday, Jan 29, 2009
Commentary Here's how we could solve the credit crunch without giving anything to the banks. -
- Wednesday, Jan 21, 2009
Commentary How did Marxist class warriors end up fighting for the bosses' right to fly? -
- Monday, Jan 19, 2009
Video George Monbiot puts the question of peak oil to Fatih Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency. - All Most Recent Content
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- Monday, Jan 19, 2009
Video George Monbiot puts the question of peak oil to Fatih Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency. -
- Saturday, Jan 17, 2009
Video George Monbiot challenges Jeroen van de Veer, chief executive of oil and gas giant Shell, on ethics, greenwash advertising, renewable energy investments and gas-flaring in Nigeria.
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- Friday, Jan 18, 2008
Video George Monbiot speaks to protesters at the Global Day of Action National Climate March, December 8th 2007. Part 2 of 2. -
- Thursday, Jan 17, 2008
Video George Monbiot speaks to protesters at the Global Day of Action National Climate March, December 8th 2007...
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- Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007
Video In this installment of the interview with George Monbiot on the science of climate change,he is asked "Does the media perpetuate a lack of urgency on global warming, and does corporate ownership of the media affect how journalists report the issue... Video In this installment of the interview with George Monbiot on the science of climate change, he is asked "What was the importance of the Stern Report and were its recommendations strong enough?" and "How does politics compromise science in such matt... Video In this installment of the interview with George Monbiot on the science of climate change he discusses practical solutions to global warming and he is asked "How can we achieve a 90% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions?" Monbiot shares his resea... Video In this installment of the interview with George Monbiot on the science of climate change, he is asked "What causes global warming? What is the tipping point? And why are countries failing to act with any sense of urgency on the issue?" George Mon... - All Recent Video
Featured Monbiot's Articles
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- Wednesday, Jun 09, 2010
Commentary Matt Ridley’s irrational theories remain unchanged by his own disastrous experiment. -
- Wednesday, Apr 21, 2010
Commentary We rely globally on over-complex, over-strained systems. Act now, or wait for the much more brutal corrective of nature. -
- Sunday, Jan 31, 2010
Commentary Wanted: Tony Blair for war crimes. Arrest him and claim your reward -
- Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Thursday, Dec 17, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Wednesday, Dec 09, 2009
ZNet Article 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? -
- Monday, Nov 09, 2009
Commentary The 'licensing effect': Researchers have found that buying green can establish the moral credentials that license subsequent bad behaviour. -
- Sunday, Oct 04, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Wednesday, Aug 05, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Friday, Jul 17, 2009
Commentary Here is the simple mathematical reason why large scale carbon offsets can't work -
- Thursday, Jun 04, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Sunday, May 24, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Commentary The funding for academic research has been taken over by business... -
- Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Blog Post Here are some estimates for total allowable fossil fuel and a call for a global moratorium on all new fossil fuel prospecting. -
- Sunday, Apr 26, 2009
Commentary The rightwing press has briefly turned against the police, but normal service will soon resume. - All Featured Monbiot's Articles
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