Public knowledge and the private sector
With the title of his latest article ‘A Monstrous Proposal’ reflecting a mock Swiftian irony, George Monbiot suggests that, in the UK, the private sector “should be subject to freedom of information...
View ArticleNonsense in an impressive number of languages
On the Rio Earth Summit Why have international summits on the environment failed so miserably so far? For the same reason, thinks George Monbiot, that banks have failed: “Political systems which were...
View ArticleThere’s only one way to save the natural world: sell it.
We’re attempting to save the world by selling it to the people who want to exploit it. Read George Monbiot on the commodification of nature. “The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground,...
View ArticleBig money should be kept out of the political process
George Monbiot argues that we should stop big money from interfering in politics by preventing big spenders from contributing to the campaigns of political parties. The effect of big campaign...
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