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Thanks to the government’s draconian new anti-protest order, it’s almost impossible to tell whether you are or are not breaking the law.
Hidden in the detail of the UK’s carbon capture and storage scheme are unlimited financial liabilities and huge environmental costs.
Predatory corporations are making a mockery of natural climate solutions, as they grab land and bamboozle the public.
This is the long version of a shorter article published on the Guardian’s website When I launched my discussion with Jonathon Porritt, I did so “in the spirit of both debate and reconciliation”. I ...
The appalling mistreatment of ME/CFS patients continues, based on the myth that it’s all in the mind.
For the first time, the United Kingdom’s consumer debt now exceeds our gross national product: a new report shows that we owe £1.35 trillion(1). Inspectors in the United States have discovered that 77 ...
Are we already shutting our minds to the consequences of climate change? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 30th October 2007 A few weeks ago I read what I believe is the most important ...
When a group in black fatigues called Alpha Men Assemble began practising paramilitary manoeuvres in a park in Staffordshireat the beginning of this year, it looked pretty threatening. These men, we ...
Many names have been proposed for our pathology: Thatcherism, Reaganism, austerity, Trussonomics. But they are all synonyms for the same ideology, a doctrine hardly anyone in public life can bring ...
Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1 st October 2024 The sentences were ...
We are defending ourselves against the wrong threats. For decades, UK governments have been fighting not just the last war, but a redundant notion of war, spending hundreds of billions against ...
It’s because the climate crisis is now visible to everyone that governments are giving the fossil fuel industry everything it demands.