George Monbiot
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Jul- 2014 -22 July
A One Way Street to Oblivion
As soon as an animal becomes extinct, a new bill proposes, it will be classified as “non-native”. Spoonbill (Photo ©…
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16 July
Another Silent Spring?
Neonicotinoids appear to have devastating effects across the natural world: we need a global moratorium. Here’s our choice. We wait…
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7 July
Beaver Baiters
The government’s decision to capture England’s only free-living population is unjustified and irrational. An opinion poll in Scotland found that…
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Jun- 2014 -27 June
A Legal Duty to Maximise Greenhouse Gases
Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is an astonishing and hitherto-unnoticed contradiction. Sometimes there’s nothing to do but sit there and…
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25 June
Towering Imbroglio
Is the government preparing to dispose of our forests and other public land? Planning laws inhibit prosperity. That’s what we’re…
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6 June
Ripping Apart the Fabric of the Nation
In an extraordinary coup, farmers’ unions and the UK government have torpedoed the European Soil Framework Directive. “British soils are…
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May- 2014 -28 May
The Impossibility of Growth
Why collapse and salvation are hard to distinguish from each other. Let us imagine that in 3030BC the total possessions…
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19 May
Are We Bothered?
The more we consume, the less we care about the living planet. That didn’t take long. The public interest in…
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Apr- 2014 -25 April
Brilliance and Bunkum
The terrible howlers in James Lovelock’s new book show that genius is no defence against being wrong. Rachel Carson, author…
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23 April
Reframing the Planet
People who think they are protecting nature by costing it are stepping straight into the destroyers’ trap. George Orwell warned…
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9 April
Loved to Death
By embracing their critics and colonising governments, corporations engineer a world of conformity and consumerism. How do you engineer a…
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2 April
Loss Adjustment
When people say we should adapt to climate change, do they have any idea what that means? To understand what…
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