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 ...

The government is betting the farm on a nuclear technology that might soon look as hip as the traction engine.

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

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

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 ...

I had an unhappy time at university, and I now regret having gone to Oxford, even though the zoology course I took – taught, among others, by Richard Dawkins, Bill Hamilton and John Krebs – was exc… ...

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

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 ...

Toxic chemicals deliberately added to sewage are being spread across a vast area of farmland, with potentially catastrophic effects. We’re suing the government to stop it.

Privatisation and austerity don’t cut costs: they just pass them on to us.

Claims that cattle ranching sequesters carbon and restores ecosystems have been used in highly effective marketing campaigns by the livestock industry. Just one problem: they’re greenwash.

We face a potential global food crisis, and no one is secure until everyone is secure.