George Monbiot (original) (raw)

Trump’s presidency is a reversion to autocratic tyranny. Only concerted resistance can stop it from spreading.

State-sponsored rape, lies and deception – then a cover-up operating right across official life.

Soil carbon markets are going to collapse. And that’s a good thing.

These people are prepared to destroy everything, as long as they can command the ruins.

Trump’s win is a return to the default state of centralised, hierarchical societies – like ours. That’s the problem.

Elon Musk threatens to do to democracy what he did to Twitter.

This is what you are voting for if you vote for Donald Trump.

A horrible illness has been widely neglected, thanks in part to the influence of a cruel and bizarre cult.

Hidden in the detail of the UK’s carbon capture and storage scheme are unlimited financial liabilities and huge environmental costs.

Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned?

An astonishing thing is happening at sea, but the government, backed by an entire “scientific” discipline, seems determined to stifle it.

The bodies meant to protect us from floods are unaccountable, self-serving and feudal in character. No wonder they keep failing.

How to create an appearance of progress while doing nothing.

The weird, uncanny consistencies of far right politics.

It’s ridiculous that governments leave it to people like me to communicate the need for environmental action.

The livestock industry is furiously lobbying to shut down alternatives, and tame politicians are giving it what it wants.

Why are peaceful protesters getting longer sentences than violent rioters?

For 14 years, the Conservatives and their friends in the media whipped up racism and Islamophobia. These riots are the result.

Tax the billionaires or their oppressive power will only grow.

An interview with The Ink, about where we are, how we got here and where we need to go.