George Monbiot's blog
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Clearing Up This Mess
John Maynard Keynes had the answer to the crisis we’re now facing; but it was blocked and then forgotten.
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This Is What Denial Does
The economic crisis is petty by comparison to the nature crunch. But they have the same cause.
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The Other Bail-Out
Another set of corporations is pressing for public money. Governments should let them die.
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Congress Confronts Its Contradictions
They baled out of the bail-out, but the money will still have to come from us. It always has.
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The Price of Free Speech
A grotesque case of legal bullying using a 13th-Century law shows that in some respects we still haven’t shaken off feudalism.
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Protect and Survive
Peter Mandelson is bullying the world’s poorest nations into following a development route that can’t work.
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Strange Fruit
A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own.
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Manufactured Famine
A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.
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Identity Politics in Climate Change Hell
Do you want to save the biosphere or boost your own brand of politics? You can’t do both.
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The Magic Pudding
Why is the US government still pouring billions into missile defence?
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Picking Up the Gauntlet
Arthur Scargill has challenged me to a duel. Name your date, sir.
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Coal Scuttled
The climate camp outside the Kingsnorth power station is contesting the biggest issue of them all
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