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The Latest Articles by George Monbiot

It’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government

If Starmer and Reeves really want a greener, cleaner, wilder nation, then why attack vital state bodies that are already on their knees?, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this?

Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market

Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Trump and Musk have launched a new class war. In the UK, we must prepare to defend ourselves

Across the world, societies are reverting to oligarchies. How to resist? Fight for democracy with all we’ve got, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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This society lauded a police officer who lied and cheated and ruined lives. At last, a reckoning

As a ‘spy cop’, Bob Lambert callously betrayed innocent women. The official inquiry must ask harsh questions of him – and the state, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Trump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion

The ‘progress’ made at Cop29 has been on carbon markets: a world of magical thinking, over-claiming and distorted truth, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29

What would it witness in Azerbaijan? A species that knows it is destroying itself but is too greedy to change course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Trump has pledged to wage war on planet Earth – and it will take a progressive revolution to stop him

Voters have never been swayed by ‘rational debate’. Only a genuine change in the way we do politics can prevent the march of the right, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

US politics live: Women’s marches hit the streets in support of Harris as both candidates target east coast – as it happened

Harris leading Trump in new Iowa poll in startling reversal, pulling ahead of Trump 47% to 44%

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Can democracy survive now the world’s richest man has it in his sights?

A vote for Donald Trump next week is also a vote for Elon Musk. He’ll have even greater power than the US president, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Trump’s greatest feat has been convincing ordinary Americans that he’s on their side. He is not

The Republican candidate embodies all the worst aspects of capitalism, condensed into human form, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Maeve Boothby O’Neill died because of a discredited view of ME. How was this allowed to happen?

Chronic fatigue syndrome is as physiological as a broken leg. We must learn all we can from this tragic case, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions

The supposedly green project – brainchild of the previous Tory government – will increase emissions, not reduce them, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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As the waters rise, a two-year sentence for throwing soup. That’s the farcical reality of British justice

Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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A wondrous fish has made a miraculous return to UK seas. Why are ministers so keen to see them killed?

We should be celebrating the revival of the bluefin tuna – but a ravenous fishing industry is already licking its lips, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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More floods are coming to Britain, but you ought to know this: the system that should protect us is a scandal

A network of public bodies are supposed to safeguard us from flooding. But, like old boys’ clubs, they are bastions of self-interest, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Out of 1,500 global climate policies, only 63 have really worked. That’s where green spin has got us

Grand schemes, many backed by governments, masquerade as positive action on the environment. They should be disowned, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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These 21st-century demagogues aren’t mavericks – they’ve repeated on us throughout history

We are nonplussed every time one emerges – but there are patterns that are totally predictable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Dear ministers, I am a climate crisis campaigner: nationalise me right now

Why have politicians outsourced the most important issue of our time to private agencies and individuals? We can’t do it all, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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The livestock lobby is waging war on ‘lab-grown meat’. This is why we can’t let them win

These new proteins could be our best hope of averting catastrophe. But governments are trying to have them banned, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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‘Two-tier justice’ in Britain is real – but it’s not what the right says it is

Compare the rioters’ prison sentences with those of Just Stop Oil. How can our justice system claim to be blind, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

For those with power and rich donors – the AC is always on, even if it’s melting outside

This has been a summer of extreme heat around the world. The Guardian is investigating how it harms our planet and leaves the world’s most vulnerable people exposed to its impact

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These riots are more than thuggery: they’re the outcome of 14 years of Tory race-baiting

Because the Conservatives had nothing to offer the people of the UK, they sought to refocus our attention on scapegoats, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Who is brave enough to back Brazil’s global tax on billionaires? The answer will define our future

It would raise $250bn to help offset some of the damage the super-rich cause. Yet they’ll do everything to stop it in its tracks, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Extreme wealth has a deadening effect on the super-rich – and that threatens us all

In a kayak off the Devon coast I witnessed the kind of entitled mindlessness that has ravaged society, and our planet, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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