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We need optimism – but Disneyfied climate predictions are just dangerous

Techno-utopianism is popular precisely because it doesn’t challenge the status quo, and lets polluters off the hook, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK · May 13, 2022

The last Labour government wasn’t so bad after all, was it George?

Letters: Chris Donnison asks George Monbiot to reconsider an article he wrote in 2008, and Gerald Clarke is disappointed that he did not mention the Windrush scandal in his his attack on the Conservatives

The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2022

Ask yourself this before you vote: can anyone truly say the Tories have made Britain better?

Weighed against the slim pickings of 12 years in government is an astounding litany of harm to the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2022

‘Learning to live with it’? From Covid to climate breakdown, it’s the new way of failing

The government is trying to wish away problems such as flooding by doing nothing. It’s incompetence by design, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2022

Our political consensus is built on lies and fear

Letters: Politicians tend to subscribe to the same set of assumptions because they are terrified of being labelled radical, writes Jamie Driscoll. Plus letters from Dr Hugh Firth , Oliver McAdoo, Mike Garnier and Cathy Wood

The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2022

Putin exploits the lie machine but didn’t invent it. British history is also full of untruths

Our own crisis of truth is responsible for some of the world’s biggest problems, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2022

Tory MPs call the green transition ‘unaffordable’. Europe is proving that’s a lie

The latest wave of climate deniers claim green schemes are ‘unaffordable’. Success stories from Europe prove that’s not true, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2022

Farmers and environmentalists must unite to create a sustainable food system

Letters: Sue Pritchard of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission on George Monbiot’s article about the food crisis

The Guardian - UK · Mar 22, 2022

There are solutions to the food crisis. But ploughing up Britain isn’t one of them

Though global prices are spiralling, fuelled by Russia’s war in Ukraine, this is no reason to drop rewilding, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2022

Nuclear option is not the best for energy transition away from Russian fuels

Letters: Readers respond to George Monbiot’s article about moving away from oil and gas to nuclear power – and reflect on other ways to limit dependency on Russia for fuel

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2022