George Monbiot
Environment Columnist at The Guardian
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4 days ago |
westcountryvoices.co.uk | George Monbiot
This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breath-taking perversity. Even in fairly recent history, it used to be much bigger, to judge by two lines of evidence: a few surviving oaks scattered beyond the current woodland edge, and bluebells and bracken, often seen as indicators of recently-forested land.
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5 days ago |
etc.se | George Monbiot
De låtsas inte ens längre. Härom veckan sa BBC, som redan är Storbritanniens mest aktiva censor, till programledaren Evan Davis att sluta med den podcast om värmepumpar han gör på sin fritid. Den var en harmlös, torr genomgång av maskinerna, utan något uppenbart politiskt innehåll. Men BBC, säger Davis, såg det som att han ”styrde in på frågor som är politiskt kontroversiella”. Podden måste genast upphöra. Så är BBC:s programledare förbjudna att säga något kontroversiellt? Långt därifrån.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | George Monbiot
The fire that has just destroyed 500 hectares (1,230 acres) of Dartmoor should have been impossible. It should not be a fire-prone landscape. But sheep, cattle and ponies have made it so. They selectively browse out tree seedlings, preventing the return of temperate rainforest, which is extremely difficult to burn. In dry weather, the moor grass, bracken and heather covering the deforested landscape are tinder.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | George Monbiot
It’s no longer even pretending. Last week, the BBC, already the UK’s most prolific censor, instructed the presenter Evan Davis to drop the podcast he hosted in his own time about heat pumps. It was a gentle, wry look at the machines, with no obvious political content. But the BBC, Davis says, saw it as “steering into areas of public controversy”. Itshould cease forthwith. So are BBC presenters banned from saying anything controversial? Far from it.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | George Monbiot
Those of us who try to defend wildlife are horribly familiar with bad laws. But we’ve never seen anything like this. The government’s planning and infrastructure bill is the worst assault on England’s ecosystems in living memory. It erases decades of environmental protections, including legislation we inherited from the EU, which even the Tories promised to uphold.
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