George Monbiot
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Mar- 2015 -31 March
Ploughing On Regardless
Almost all other issues are superficial by comparison to soil loss. So why don’t we talk about it? Imagine a…
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Nov- 2014 -13 November
Better Dead Than Different
Our visions of the future are defined, like the film Interstellar, by technological optimism and political defeatism. Yawn: "Hey, we…
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5 November
A Gunpowder Plot Against Democracy
This bill of rights for corporations will blow up the sovereignty of parliaments. On this day a year ago, I…
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Oct- 2014 -27 October
Ripping Yarns
Only 0.01% of our seas are protected, and even the top conservation sites are up for grabs. A few days…
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22 October
“Cleansing the Stock”
How our governments now talk about human beings. To blot people out of existence first you must blot them from…
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16 October
Falling Apart
Competition and individualism are forcing us into a devastating Age of Loneliness. What do we call this time? It’s not…
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9 October
The Toll-Booth Economy
Corporate power is the real enemy within, but none of the major parties will confront it. The more power you…
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3 October
The Kink in the Human Brain
Pointless, joyless consumption is destroying our world of wonders. This is a moment at which anyone with the capacity for…
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Sep- 2014 -12 September
Political Straightjacket
If the ozone hole had been discovered ten years later, governments are likely to have done nothing. In The Magnificent…
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3 September
Someone Else’s Story
Scots voting no to independence would be an astonishing act of self-harm. Imagine that the question was posed the other…
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1 September
The British Thermopylae – and the Case for Reintroducing Big Cats, a Weird and Wonderful Tale
Y Gododdin is one of the few surviving accounts by the Britons of what the Anglo-Saxons did to them. It…
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Jul- 2014 -25 July
The Pricing of Everything
The Natural Capital Agenda looks like an answer to the environmental crisis. But it’s a delusion. Below is the transcript…
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