George Monbiot
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
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- In Deep 9 Jul 2026 The numbers are simply mind-blowing: up to £264 billion for a climate “solution” that will increase emissions. Has the government lost its mind? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th July 2026 The new prime m…
- Hotheads 6 Jul 2026 Steady temperatures are the preserve of the rich. The billionaire press wants everyone else to suffer. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 1st July 2026 Every time you think the idiocy has hit rock bottom, it…
- Two-Tier Justice 25 Jun 2026 It’s real, and it’s the exact opposite of what the far right says it is. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th June 2026 “If you are targeting people on the basis of the colour of their skin,” the Northern I…
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- Reality Be Damned 15 Jun 2026 The policies of both Reform UK and the Conservatives would destroy a million jobs. In return, they offer imaginary employment in a fantasy industry. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th June 2026 Really? Yo…
- Vampire Capital 8 Jun 2026 The highly lucrative trade in children in care reveals another level of cynicism altogether. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th June 2026 Bring your suitcase, your bin liner, your dumpy bag. They’re handin…
- Climate Authoritarianism 3 Jun 2026 How to alienate people from the green transition. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th May 2026 We will not persuade. We will not explain. We will not listen. We know best and we will force you to comply. T…
- Political Fairytale 25 May 2026 Why is centrism failing so badly? Because at its heart is a mistaken idea of how politics works. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th May 2026 The biggest Brexit donor was the stockbroker Peter Hargreaves.…
- Never Again, Again 18 May 2026 Why are rightwingers being given a free pass on antisemitism? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th May 2026 The media’s message appears to have cut through. At the crucial rally against antisemitism in Lond…
- Hear This 11 May 2026 Radical Listening could transform our politics and block the rise of the far right. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2026 Most people have made up their minds, and nothing you can say will change the…
- Get the Money out of Politics 3 May 2026 There’s a really simple way of ensuring that politics belongs to the people, not to the ultra-rich. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th April 2026 How do we know whether political funding is corrupt? Mostl…
- Alternating Current 29 Apr 2026 If this crucial circulation system shuts down, the civilisational impacts will be irreversible. So why isn’t it a top priority? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd April 2026 The poor and middle pay taxes,…
- Self-Burn 21 Apr 2026 Thanks to Trump, people around the world are scrambling to get out of fossil fuels. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th April 2026 Donald Trump has done more to accelerate the energy transition than anyone…
- Gateway Dump 8 Apr 2026 How the deregulation of waste disposal has turned this country into a magnet for the mafia. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st April 2026 This country’s a dump. I don’t mean that metaphorically. I mean it…
- A Potential Termination Event 2 Apr 2026 Cascading failure across the global food system is a real and horrific possibility, which most governments are doing nothing to avert. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th March 2026 The fate of environment…
- Leave Tyrants in the Ground 24 Mar 2026 By unhooking ourselves from fossil fuels, we release ourselves from a world of harm. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th March 2026 I realise this is a serious breach of etiquette. But could we perhaps aba…
- Gas-Lit 17 Mar 2026 If it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that’s because there isn’t one. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th March 2026 These are burning, smo…
- Prefigurement 8 Mar 2026 Today’s cruel treatment of Muslims and immigrants was originally crafted as an attack on Jews. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th March 2026 Our political memory fails us. We treat government policies as i…
- Greening Up 2 Mar 2026 The Green Party is becoming everything you might have wanted Labour to be. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th February 2026 NB: This article was published before the by-election it refers to. The Greens w…
- Hatchet Man 13 Feb 2026 Peter Mandelson was not one bad apple: he was brought in repeatedly by governments to do their dirty work. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th February 2026 History is being rewritten. The story we are tol…
- The Merdas Touch 5 Feb 2026 Here is the real reason why Keir Starmer’s government refuses to let us have a fair electoral system. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th February 2026 Don’t let the Labour party say one more word about “sp…
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Beliefs
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Beef and lamb are the most land-hungry and climate-damaging farm products there are.
In reality, beef and lamb are the most land-hungry and climate-damaging of all farm products.
Pasturised Said 12 May 2025
The claim that grazing cattle and sheep are good for the climate is the most effective form of climate denial now in circulation.
This story, wrapped in romantic cottagecore, is now the most active and seductive frontier of climate-science denial.
Pasturised Said 12 May 2025
The world today feeds far more people with far less famine than it did sixty years ago, and almost nobody celebrates it.
In 2023, a world of 8.1 billion people suffers far less hunger and famine than the world of 3.2 billion did in 1963, the year of my birth.
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People Said 4 Oct 2023
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Raising yields on land already farmed is what keeps farming from taking more of the wild world.
It was achieved almost entirely through higher crop yields per hectare.
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People Said 4 Oct 2023
Long-distance food transport is what stops a local harvest failure from becoming a famine.
But without long-distance transport, many more would starve.
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People Said 4 Oct 2023
Local self-provisioning cannot feed the world, because most people do not live within reach of enough fertile land.
They show that, while agrarian localism might be great as far as it goes, it simply cannot, by itself, meet the challenge of feeding the world.
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People Said 4 Oct 2023
Making food more expensive is not a way to fix the food system, because higher food prices fall hardest on the poorest people.
But while I have seen no evidence (and Chris provides none) that higher food prices alleviate global hunger, there is a wealth of evidence that they exacerbate it.
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People Said 4 Oct 2023
A third of humanity already cannot afford a healthy diet, which is why food has to get cheaper rather than dearer.
Using this definition, 3 billion people – over one-third of the global population – cannot afford a healthy diet.
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People Said 4 Oct 2023
Pasture-fed meat cannot be scaled up to feed the world, because there is not enough land on Earth for it.
Their solutions, such as pasture-fed meat, with its massive land demand , are impossible to scale without destroying remaining wild ecosystems: there is simply not enough planet.
Fantasy Farming Said 28 May 2023
A romantic, low-yield farming system would need far more land and would produce more hunger, not less.
But it leads, if enacted, to hunger, ecological destruction or both, on a vast scale. Our arcadian fantasies devour the planet.
Fantasy Farming Said 28 May 2023
The answer to feeding the world is better factories, not more fields.
The answer is not more fields, which means destroying even more wild ecosystems. It is partly better, more compact, cruelty-free and pollution-free factories.
Fantasy Farming Said 28 May 2023
The traditional meat-eating diet the romantics revere was built on colonisation and the clearance of other continents.
Widespread meat-eating in the 19th century became possible only through the colonisation and clearance of Australia and the Americas
Fantasy Farming Said 28 May 2023
Grazing livestock on land too poor for crops does more environmental damage per unit of meat than feeding grain to animals does.
Wasteful and destructive as feeding grain to livestock is, ranching appears to be even worse.
Wrong About Being Wrong Said 27 Nov 2013
Beliefs others hold too
Raising yields on land already farmed is what keeps farming from taking more of the wild world. 2 hold this
It was achieved almost entirely through higher crop yields per hectare.
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People Said 4 Oct 2023
Making food more expensive is not a way to fix the food system, because higher food prices fall hardest on the poorest people. 2 hold this
But while I have seen no evidence (and Chris provides none) that higher food prices alleviate global hunger, there is a wealth of evidence that they exacerbate it.
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People Said 4 Oct 2023
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