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- 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 negotiations ran into the sand of the Mexican resort of Cancún, never to re-emerge. After eight years of dithering, nothing has been agreed. -
- 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 living as it has done, until it must make a wasteland of its home, or to stop and redefine itself. This is about much more than climate change. This is about us. 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 alone, who can rescue the climate negotiations from the dismal bickering into which they have slumped. To save him the trouble, I have written the speech that could turn the talks around. -
- 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 missile attacks on the twin towers. Sometimes, as we saw at the G20 protests on April 1st or at climate camp last year, they are out to get us. The policing of these events shows that some of the UK's public authorities really do regard political activism as a threat that must be contained or eliminated. -
- 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 kilometres from the coast, surrounded by gannets and shearwaters, I feel closer to nature than at any other time. -
- 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 motorway, which has just been signed. Some hope. "The £6.2m bill: Scandal of how MPs are taking taxpayers for a ride with extortionate travel expenses" referred to a rip-off precisely 1000th of the size of the travel expenses scandal that interests me. -
- 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 cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his own room") couldn't have been more wrong.
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- 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 1960s. Tens of thousands were sold, at mind-boggling prices. -
- 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 their knees. We are punch drunk, reeling, uniquely vulnerable - because none of it makes sense any more - to new demands from every species of scrounger. -
- 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. -
- 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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- Monday, Jan 12, 2009
Commentary Why good people do bad things... - 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?"
George Monbiot is a columnist for the Guardian and author of the bestselling books Captive State, The Age of Consent and Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning. 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 matters?" 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 Monbiot is a columnist for the Guardian and author of the bestselling books Captive State, The Age of Consent and Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning. 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 research on the world's most innovative ideas for change.
George Monbiot is a columnist for the Guardian and author of the bestselling books Captive State, The Age of Consent and Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning. - All Recent Video
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- Sunday, Dec 16, 2007
Book An amazing book about the consequences of and some of the possible solutions to global warming. Monbiot gives detailed and well researched analysis of the major alternatives to fossill based fuels and their realistic ability to replace our dirty, polluting energy infrastructure. -
- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
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George Monbiot's Bio Info: George Monbiot is the author of the best sellin... moreGeorge Monbiot is the author of the best selling books Heat: how to stop the planet burning; The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order and Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain; as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man's Land. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper.
During seven years of investigative journeys in Indonesia, Brazil and East Africa, he was shot at, beaten up by military police, shipwrecked and stung into a poisoned coma by hornets. He came back to work in Britain after being pronounced clinically dead in Lodwar General Hospital in north-western Kenya, having contracted cerebral malaria.
In Britain, he joined the roads protest movement. He was hospitalised by security guards, who drove a metal spike through his foot, smashing the middle bone. He helped to found The Land is Ours, which has occupied land all over the country, including 13 acres of prime real estate in Wandsworth belonging to the Guinness corporation and destined for a giant superstore. The protesters beat Guinness in court, built an eco-village and held onto the land for six months.
He has held visiting fellowships or professorships at the universities of Oxford (environmental policy), Bristol (philosophy), Keele (politics) and East London (environmental science). He is currently visiting professor of planning at Oxford Brookes University. In 1995 Nelson Mandela presented him with a United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement. He has also won the Lloyds National Screenwriting Prize for his screenplay The Norwegian, a Sony Award for radio production, the Sir Peter Kent Award and the OneWorld National Press Award.
In summer 2007 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Essex and an honorary fellowship by Cardiff University. less: England Awaiting authorizationMy ZSpace FriendsRecent Friends Messages
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