George Monbiot

Educational charities doing PR for ultra-rich

Conspiracies against the public don't get much uglier than this. As [the Guardian] revealed last week, two secretive organisations working for US billionaires have spent $118m to ensure that no action is taken to Published 19 Feb, 2013 08:59pm

The year the world did it best to abandon nature

LONDON: It was the year of living dangerously. In 2012 governments turned their backs on the living planet, demonstrating that no chronic problem, however grave, will take priority over an immediate concern, however trivial. I believe there has Published 01 Jan, 2013 10:11pm
No Obama tears for children killed by drones in Pakistan

No Obama tears for children killed by drones in Pakistan

“MERE words cannot match the depths of your sorrow, nor can they heal your wounded hearts ... These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change.” Every parent can connect with what President Barack Obama said about the murder of 20 children in New Published 19 Dec, 2012 01:06am

Must the poor go hungry so the rich can drive?

LONDON: I don't blame Mo Farah, Pele and Haile Gebrselassie, who lined up, all hugs and smiles, outside Downing Street for a photocall at David Cameron's hunger summit. Perhaps they were unaware of the way in which they were being used to promote the Brit Published 15 Aug, 2012 01:01am

A poetic view of environmental collapse

LONDON: The land around Helpston, just to the north of Peterborough in Northamptonshire, central England, now ranks among the most dismal and regularised tracts of countryside in Europe. Published 10 Jul, 2012 10:12pm

A new boom in oil

THE facts have changed, now we must change too. For the past 10 years an unlikely coalition of geologists, oil drillers, bankers, military strategists and environmentalists has been warning that peak oil — the decline of global supplies — is just around t Published 04 Jul, 2012 12:00am

Governments have given up on Earth

IT is, perhaps, the greatest failure of collective leadership since the First World War. The Earth’s living systems are collapsing, and the leaders of some of the most powerful nations — the United States, the UK, Germany, Russia — could not even be bothe Published 27 Jun, 2012 01:04am

Why Mladic’s trial matters

THE term ‘genocide’ conjures up attempts to kill an entire people: the German slaughter of the Jews and the near-extermination of the Native Americans. Published 23 May, 2012 12:00am

Who funds the lobbyists?

SHOCKING, fascinating, entirely unsurprising: the leaked documents, if authentic, confirm what we suspected but could not prove. Published 21 Feb, 2012 11:30pm

Drones fight a coward’s war

THE ancient Greeks, unlike the Jews or the Christians, invested their gods with human failings. Divine judgment, they believed, was neither flawless nor dispassionate; it was warped by lust, vengeance and self-interest. Published 01 Feb, 2012 12:00am

The British boarding school remains cruel

LONDON: Texas is a largely Christian state that appears to believe in neither forgiveness nor redemption. Last week the Guardian revealed the extent to which it has criminalised its children. Published 17 Jan, 2012 11:21pm