Perhaps we could call it wink murder. When people become desensitised by ironic calls for violence, the difference between a humorous position and an ideological conviction can begin to break down.

No one can be trusted with power. Any government will oppress its people if not constantly and inventively challenged. And the task becomes ever-more urgent as new technologies of surveillance and ...

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28 th June 2025 ...

A massive new road scheme will solve precisely nothing, while costing the Earth.

System change is – and has always been – our only realistic means of defending the living planet. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19 th July 2022 Can we talk about it now? I mean the ...

The meat industry’s misinformation tactics are even worse than the fossil fuel industry’s. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14 th December 2023 Everything that makes campaigning against ...

Our survival depends on piercing the glassy surface of distraction, and ceasing to obey.

Predatory corporations are making a mockery of natural climate solutions, as they grab land and bamboozle the public.

and the totality of the gross domestic product of the human economy. crash on the way. Yet very few of us are prepared to look honestly at the message this reality is screaming at us: that the ...

Earth systems are being rushed towards their tipping points by governments that offer us nothing but chaos. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 31 st October 2023 Can you see it yet? The ...

Farmfree foods might be the only thing that gets us – and much of the rest of the living world – through this century.