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‘Farming good, factory bad’, we think. When it comes to the global food crisis, it isn’t so simple
‘Green growth’ doesn’t exist – less of everything is the only way to avert catastrophe
‘Try to stop me’ – the mantra of our leaders who are now ruling with impunity
A lesson from Hurricane Irma: capitalism can’t save the planet - it can only destroy it
A tale of gold, guns, greed and rat poison in the Brazilian jungle
After the failure of Cop26, there is only one last hope for our survival
After urging land reform I now know the brute power of our billionaire press
Airlines and oil giants are on the brink. No government should offer them a lifeline
All Together Now (xlnt)
Back to Nature
Boarding school at an early age is child abuse
Britain's claims to being a functioning democracy are only skin deep
Carbon offsetting is not warding off environmental collapse – it’s accelerating it
Clearing Up This Mess (2008)
Consumer Hell
Covid-19 is nature's wake-up call to complacent civilisation
Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth (2013)
Dare to declare capitalism dead – before it takes us all down with it
Dark money lurks at the heart of our political crisis
Death Denial
Don’t let the rich get even richer on the assets we all share
Eat more meat and save the world: the latest implausible farming miracle (2014)
Electric food – the new sci-fi diet that could save our planet
Extreme wealth has a deadening effect on the super-rich – and that threatens us all
Finally, a breakthrough alternative to growth economics – the doughnut
Forget ‘the environment’: we need new words to convey life’s wonders
Freedom of the Routers
Frightened by Donald Trump? You don’t know the half of it
George Monbiot: how do we get out of this mess?
Goodbye – and good riddance – to livestock farming
How Labour could lead the global economy out of the 20th century
How the world’s dirtiest industries have learned to pollute our politics
How we can teach children so they survive AI – and cope with whatever comes next
I Was Wrong About Trade
If defending life on Earth is extremist, we must own that label
In a world built by plutocrats, the powerful are protected while vengeful laws silence their critics
In the age of robots, our schools are teaching children to be redundant
Insectageddon: farming is more catastrophic than climate breakdown
Is this the end of civilisation? We could take a different path
It's time to rewild the child
It’s democracy v plutocracy – this is the endgame for our planet (2022)
Japan nuclear crisis should not carry weight in atomic energy debate
Lab-grown food is about to destroy farming – and save the planet
Let's abandon climate targets, and do something completely different
Lies, fearmongering and fables: that’s our democracy
Materialism: a system that eats us from the inside out
Meet the ecomodernists: ignorant of history and paradoxically old-fashioned
Neoliberalism: the deep story that lies beneath Donald Trump’s triumph (xlnt)
Neoliberalism: The Ideology at the Root of All Our Problems
Obama's rogue state tramples over every law it demands others uphold
On the 12th day of Christmas ... your gift will just be junk
Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse
Our greatest peril? Screening ourselves off from reality
Patent Nonsense
Put a price on nature? We must stop this neoliberal road to ruin
Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free
The ‘flickering’ of Earth systems is warning us: act now, or see our already degraded paradise lost
The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen
The age of loneliness is killing us
The banks collapsed in 2008 – and our food system is about to do the same
The big polluters’ masterstroke was to blame the climate crisis on you and me
The climate crisis is already here – but no one’s telling us
The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us
The Farmer and the Food Chain, Episode 1, Gareth Goes Fishing
The Fortifying Commons
The Gift of Death
The horror films got it wrong. This virus has turned us into caring neighbours
The most damaging farm products? Organic, pasture-fed beef and lamb
The need to protect the internet from 'astroturfing' grows ever more urgent
The Process Is Dead
The secret world beneath our feet is mind-blowing – and the key to our planet’s future
The UK government wants to put a price on nature – but that will destroy it (2018)
The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all
There’s a simple way to unite everyone behind climate justice – and it’s within our power
This can be the year when we recharge nature – and ourselves
Too right it's Black Friday: our relentless consumption is trashing the planet
US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush's Middle East policy
Watching Don’t Look Up made me see my whole life of campaigning flash before me
We need to talk about water – and the fact that the world is running out of it
We’re in a new age of obesity. How did it happen? You’d be surprised
We’re treating soil like dirt. It’s a fatal mistake, because all human life depends on it
We’ve had almost 99 years of Tory rule in Totnes. Here’s how we plan to get rid of them (2023)
What's as scary as Covid? The fact our leaders still have no plan to control it
Why are the crucial questions about Hurricane Harvey not being asked?
With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth
You can deny environmental calamity – until you check the facts

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