George Monbiot

2 weeks ago | outraspalavras.net | George Monbiot

Boletim Outras Palavras Receba por email, diariamente, todas as publicações do site Agradecemos! Você já está inscrito e começará a receber os boletins em breve. Boa leitura! Um dos maiores êxitos do capitalismo é desligar nossa imaginação. Com a ajuda de suas ferramentas preferidas — o neoliberalismo e o fascismo —, ele nos convence de que “não há alternativa”. Nossa primeira tarefa é reacender nossa imaginação moral e nomear nossas alternativas.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | George Monbiot

I have been saying this a lot recently: “At last!” At last, a mainstream film bluntly revealing the plunder of our seas. At last, a proposed ban on bottom trawling in so-called “marine protected areas” (MPAs). At last, some solid research on seabed carbon and the vast releases caused by the trawlers ploughing it up. But still I feel that almost everyone is missing the point. David Attenborough’s Ocean film, made for National Geographic, is the one I’ve been waiting for all my working life.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | George Monbiot

Deserts are spreading across great tracts of Britain, yet few people seem to have noticed, and fewer still appear to care. It is one of those astonishing situations I keep encountering: in which vast, systemic problems – in this case, I believe, covering thousands of square kilometres – hide in plain sight. I realise that many people, on reading that first sentence, will suspect I’ve finally flipped. Where, pray, are those rolling sand dunes or sere stony wastes?

1 month 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?

1 month 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.