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George Monbiot

Environment Columnist at The Guardian

The bride at every funeral, the corpse at every wedding. This account is now closed. Find me on Bluesky: https://t.co/0iVBaQEKGy

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  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | George Monbiot

    This feels terminal. The breaches of trust have been so frequent, so vast and so decisive that the voters Labour has already lost are unlikely to return. In one forum after another, I hear the same sentiments: “I voted for change, not the same or worse.” “I’ve voted Labour all my life, but that’s it for me.” “I feel I’ve been had.”It’s not dissatisfaction. It’s not disillusionment. It’s revulsion: visceral fury, anger on a level I’ve seldom seen before, even towards Tory cruelties. Why?

  • 2 weeks ago | freitag.de | George Monbiot

    Das Feuer, das am Monatsanfang 500 Hektar der Hügellandschaft Dartmoor in der südwestenglischen Grafschaft Devon zerstörte, sollte eigentlich gar nicht möglich sein. Es dürfte keine brandgefährdete Landschaft sein. Aber Schafe, Rinder und Ponys haben sie dazu gemacht. Die Tiere fressen gezielt die kleinen nachwachsenden Bäume und verhindern so die Rückkehr des gemäßigten Regenwaldes, der nur sehr schwer entzündbar ist.

  • 3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | George Monbiot

    The precedent is uncanny, and the failure to learn from it downright mystifying. Keir Starmer is rushing gladly towards the catastrophe Boris Johnson inflicted on himself in 2020. Had he set out to stymie Labour’s chances of re-election, he couldn’t be doing it better. In 2020, Johnson promised “a whole new planning system” for England, which, he claimed, would promote “economic growth”. He said he wanted to see 300,000 new homes built every year.

  • 3 weeks 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.

  • 3 weeks 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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George Monbiot
George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot
20 Jan 25

This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it. I’m now posting at https://t.co/Ks8LIz0Qmt. Since Elon Musk bought this

George Monbiot
George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot
19 Jan 25

One day to go before the #Xodus. Tomorrow afternoon, UK time, January 20, join me in leaving this platform for Bluesky.

George Monbiot
George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot
17 Jan 25

Tiktok has been banned in the US on the grounds that China could use it "to manipulate and control Americans by spreading propaganda and misinformation." In other words, China *might do* exactly what Elon Musk *has done* with X. It's a blatant double standard.