Austerity
George Monbiot – How to really take back control
A wide ranging lecture by George Monbiot that ticks almost all boxes.
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Corruption
Geroge Monbiot: Resist a US trade deal. Your life may depend on it
Isn’t it convenient that people are poor. As Bertolt Brecht famously wrote: “First comes food, then morals”. If you are hungry, it matters little what you eat. The increasing poverty in Europe has raised the […]
Deregulation
George Monbiot: Is this the end of civilisation? We could take a different path
We are destroying the planet. There is no doubt about that, just about how long we can ignore this fact. Read here
Environment
George Monbiot: Eating the Earth
There will be no more meat in 2100. George Monbiot explains why that has to happen and will happen. Read here
Food Production
George Monbiot: Mass starvation is humanity’s fate if we keep flogging the land to death
The Earth cannot accommodate our need and greed for food. We must change our diet before it’s too late Read here
Environment
George Monbiot: Dirty air is killing our children. Why does the government let this happen?
This article applies not only for cars at school gates. Due to the fraud of Volkswagen and other car companies the air in most of our cities is polluted above the permissible levels. Besides government […]
Environment
George Monbiot: Black Friday is right: our relentless consumption is trashing the planet
When you hear that something makes economic sense, this means it makes the opposite of common sense. Those sensible men and women who run the world’s treasuries and central banks, who see an indefinite rise […]
Austerity
George Monbiot: Look to Sheffield: this is how state and corporate power subverts democracy
The destructiveness and reach of neo-liberalism is made clear in this piece by George Monbiot. It is a question of felling some trees in the city of Sheffield in the UK, but one can see […]
Solutions
George Monbiot: Keynesianism is dead. We need a radical reboot of our economy
George Monbiot proposes a couple of useful suggestions for turning around the modern state and its economy. Read here
Climate Change
George Monbiot: Opinion Insectageddon: farming is more catastrophic than climate breakdown
At least Monsanto, Bayer and the other multinational pesticide and GMO seed producers are still earning billions. Like Peter Thiel, those making the profits are probably buying estates in New Zealand, where they can go when the environmental […]