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 ...

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

A massive new road scheme will solve precisely nothing, while costing the Earth.

Archive of his syndicated column about international and British politics and issues, arranged by topic.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Farmfree foods might be the only thing that gets us – and much of the rest of the living world – through this century.

Destroying the world’s living systems and draining its wealth are not perversions of capitalism. They are capitalism.