George Monbiot

The justifications for airport expansion turn out to be bogus. Read more – ‘Angle of Descent’.

We’re getting a better idea of how billionaires and corporations capture government policy. Read more – ‘Plutocracy’s Boot Boys’.

A potent myth is being used to justify economic capture by a parasitic class. Read more – ‘Romnesia’.

The evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to the food industry is strong and growing. Read more – ‘The Mind Thieves’.

With the appointment of an anti-green as Environment Secretary, the pretence is over. Read more – ‘Declaring War on the Environment’.

The prospect of a trial for Tony Blair now starts to look more plausible Read more – ‘A Step Towards the Dock’.

Press release: Payouts for attempts to arrest the former PM now exceed £10,000. Read more – ‘Bounty Paid for Blair Arrest Attempt’.

An animation calling for economic democracy. Read more – ‘After Capitalism’.

Could the rubbish published in the Observer about birds of prey be related to the author’s undisclosed interests? Read more – ‘Hidden Claws’.

Climate breakdown is right here, right now. Read more – ‘The Heat of the Moment’.

The rich world is causing the famines it claims to be preventing. Read more – ‘Hunger Games’.

In the name of saving the natural world, governments are privatising it. Read more – ‘The Great Impostors’.

The environment is being trashed because of a failure to reform campaign finance. Read more – ‘Dance With the One Who Brung You’.

Why have the Year Zero policies of neoliberalism not been abandoned? Read more – ‘Scorched Earth Economics’.

A new front opens up in the war against nature. Read more – ‘Lead Soldiers’.

This is the fate of young people today: excluded, but forbidden to opt out. Read more – ‘The Promised Land’.

The people cutting open bluefin tuna nets are heroes Read more – ‘For Those Who Love Life’.

Enclosure and dispossession have driven us, like John Clare, all a little mad. Read more – ‘Anomie’.

We were wrong about peak oil: there’s enough in the ground to deep-fry the planet. Read more – ‘False Summit’.

So now what do we do to defend life on Earth? Read more – ‘End of an Era’.

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