George Monbiot

BP bugüne kadar hiç kâr etti mi? Soru, biraz tuhaf geliyor. Şirket geçen yıl 26 milyar dolar kâra geçtiğini açıkladı. BP'nin, hisse sahiplerinin ceplerine para pompaladığına şüphe yok. Burada asıl sorulması gereken şey şu: Bu para, gerçekten şirketin söylediği şey mi?

Green MP is welcome addition to British politics and reflects the transformation of the party

New government's green policies are progressive, but onshore wind and nuclear could prove stumbling blocks for Lib Dem-Tory coalition

Science and humanities students view each other with incomprehension: blame our dumb, narrow schooling.

f a country that takes conservation so seriously can still be losing plants and animals every year, where does hope lie?

Chilcot and the courts won't do it, so it is up to us to show that we won't let an illegal act of mass murder go unpunished

Consumerism has, as Huxley feared, changed all of us – we'd rather hop to a brave new world than rein in our spending.

Enerji sektörünün kontrolündeki Senato'ya iklim programı için bastırmak istemeyen Obama, sonradan Çin'i suçlayabilmek için, Kopenhag'da bile bile tek taraflı bir diplomasi yürüttü. Birkaç hükümetin ekonomik hâkimiyeti adına yoksul ülkelere intihar anlaşması dayatıldı.

Obama's attempt to put China in the frame for failure had its origins in the absence of American campaign finance reform

Sınırlarını sürekli aşmaya çalışmış bir tür için anlaşılması zor olsa da hayatta kalmak limitlerle yaşamayı kabul etmemize bağlı.

George Monbiot despairs at the chaotic, disastrous denouement of a chaotic and disastrous climate summit

Only one person can now rescue these climate talks. This is the speech to turn shambles to triumph

This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become.

The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the greatest obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen

The challenge of feeding 7 or 8 billion people while oil supplies are falling is stupefying. It'll be even greater if governments keep pretending that it isn't going to happen.

Small actions allow people to overlook the bigger ones and still claim they are being environmentally responsible

Population growth is not a problem - it's among those who consume the least. So why isn't anyone targeting the very rich?

Our brains struggle with big, painful change. The rational, least painful change is to stop wasting money building tanks

They claim they're sceptics – but when any explanation will do as long as it backs their theories, 'climate change deniers' is the only term good enough

The government couldn't revitalise this rotten system even if it wanted to. It's down to us - and we can learn from the US

Shell will pour big money into alternative energy when more lucrative opportunities are blocked. Where is the government brave enough to block them?

Until this year's report, the International Energy Agency mocked people who said that oil supplies might peak. Now they've changed their tune.

George Monbiot puts the question to Fatih Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency - and is both astonished and alarmed by the answer

The new emissions agreement is a disaster. Angela Merkel is prepared to go green only when it doesn't hurt big business

Lord Turner climate change report, published yesterday, is long, detailed and impressive. But this environmental state of emergency demands a bolder answer than Lord Turner's. We could start by taking six critical steps.

It may be too late. But without radical action, we will be the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse

he economist's dream was blocked for an IMF serving the rich. Reforms proposed by G20 leaders are too little, too late

From banking to the climate, the wreckage of short-termism is stark, and the need for a 100-year committee is plain

The financial crisis at least affords us an opportunity to now rethink our catastrophic ecological trajectory

Arthur Scargill's nostalgia would punish the people he cares about. And as for his room-full-of-radiation challenge? I accept