George MonbiotThe institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict.… ▶371Humanity
George MonbiotIf wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. ✨ The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has … ▶341Reading
George MonbiotProgress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life. ✨ After this 60-year feeding frenzy, Earth itself has become disposable by George Mon… ▶364Life
George MonbiotEvery time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned. ✨ I'm all for putting more vehicles o… ▶311DeathTime
George MonbiotAlmost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial. ✨ The threat is from those who accept climate change, not those who den… ▶347Time
George MonbiotThere is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground. ✨ We were wrong on peak… ▶316Politics
George MonbiotIs the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears to be as determin… ▶318Time
George MonbiotDeregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government. ✨ This Tory bonfire of r… ▶241PoliticsReading
George MonbiotAugust 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad. ✨ The day the world went mad by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.<… ▶318Humanity
George MonbiotThose who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more. ✨ Is protecting the environment incompat… ▶277Life
George MonbiotUntil now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can st… ▶288Politics
George MonbiotIt is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but aga… ▶245Humanity
George MonbiotIf global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.201Humanity
George MonbiotWhy is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere? ✨ Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere? by George Monbiot, www.th… ▶224Thought
George MonbiotDevelopment which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its livin… ▶279Life
George MonbiotLike other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.268HumanityLife
George MonbiotThe corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship, and the… ▶257Politics
George MonbiotThe schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rules, which really means that th… ▶258HopeHumanityReading
George MonbiotThe angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they fl… ▶215HumanityLove
George MonbiotFaced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.215Humanity
George MonbiotThe problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights, filling the kettle, taking the children to school… ▶193DeathHumanityLove
George MonbiotWe are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it quickly and carelessly. If were genuinely ma… ▶238HumanityTime
George MonbiotAlmost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this sma… ▶216ThoughtTruth
George MonbiotGovernments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage th… ▶131PoliticsTime
George MonbiotIn motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair. ✨ For more wonder, rewild the world. TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2013.… ▶153HopeHumanityLove
George MonbiotEven when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally. ✨ Japan nuclear crisis shou… ▶177HumanityPolitics
George MonbiotDo we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse? ✨ The planet is now so vandalised that only total energy renewal can save … ▶168Philosophy
George MonbiotWhen you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist. ✨ This crisis … ▶137Humanity
George MonbiotSo, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be because you have retained the huma… ▶1410Humanity
