George Monbiot

Labour’s first stage of government resembles a vast forensic excavation. As it works through the Conservatives’ midden of horrors, it discovers an ever greater legacy of underinvestment, neglect and…

Photograph: Guardian Design/Tolga Akmen/EPA There are several services and assets I would like to see nationalised. But at the top of my list is neither water, nor trains, nor development land, much…

A protester holds a placard during a rally against the 54th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 14 January 2024. Photograph: Andy Barton/Alamy

On a calm and beautiful morning off the coast of south Devon last week, I was watching a small pod of dolphins from my kayak. I had spotted them from half a mile away, feeding and playing on the…

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To understand this moment, we have to recognise that there is an existential struggle on both sides. While environmental scientists and activists fight for the very survival of the habitable planet,…

Wood burners are incredibly bad for the environment – and flood our homes with toxins, too. I wish I’d known that in 2008 It’s shame that has stopped me writing about it before. The shame of…

Never mind the yuck factor: precision fermentation could produce new staple foods, and end our reliance on farming

It’s a miracle that any one of us is alive today. Those with the power to grant that miracle to future generations chose not to

It’s on course to guzzle half the world’s carbon budget, so why are governments so afraid to discuss it?

The Just Stop Oil activists are accused of using tactics that will backfire. But ‘respectable’ protest is roundly ignored

The PM’s vision of growth is part of the class war that is transferring power from Britain’s poorest people to its richest

Unlike most of the media, the Guardian resists political or commercial influence in order to keep the climate crisis front and centre  

Perhaps the most important of all environmental issues is land use. Every hectare of land we use for extractive industries is a hectare that can’t support wild forests, savannahs, wetlands, natural…

Instead of focusing on ‘micro consumerist bollocks’ like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not up There is a myth about human beings that…

It feels like the end game. In the US last week, the third perverse and highly partisan supreme court decision in a few days made American efforts to prevent climate breakdown almost impossible.…

It has proved too easy to stop people uniting around the crucial issues of our time. Those who demand better pay and conditions for workers and justice for poor people have been pitched by demagogues…

For the past few years, scientists have been frantically sounding an alarm that governments refuse to hear: the global food system is beginning to look like the global financial system in the run-up…

Energy bills are not increasing because of feeble environmental levies – the solution is a tax on the oil giants

There is nothing that cannot be corrupted, nothing good that cannot be transformed into something bad. And there is no clearer example than the great climate land grab. We now know that it’s not…