George Monbiot

By failing to disarm and breaking the rules when it suits, nuclear states are driving proliferation as much as Ahmadinejad

Channel 4's dismissal of Ofcom's damning verdict about its flawed programme is the usual professional self-deception

Europe is propping up an unsustainable industry in an extreme example of short-termism that our children will pay for

Oil-dependent countries are focused on growth at all costs, and the pale green political consensus looks unlikely to hold

Guantánamo has proved a useful distraction from the secret detention camps run by the US around the world

Peasants are detested by both communists and capitalists - but when it comes to productivity a small farm is unbeatable

As long as the greatest crime of the 21st century remains unprosecuted, we all have a duty to keep the truth alive

An open letter to the leader of Opec's biggest oil producer, the one man who can force Britain to cut its carbon emissions

Britain's official approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. And the richer you are, the more yours is worth

Even capitalists now admit the oil crisis is real. But their solutions border on lunacy as they avoid the obvious answer.

Gerçekten de nüfus çevre sorunlarımızın birinci sırasında mı yer alıyor? Okurlarımın çoğunun yaptığı gibi, nüfus artışının ekolojik krizden sorumlu olduğunu öne sürmek, zenginlerin ulaştıkları yüzünden yoksulları sorumlu tutmaktır.

It's easy to blame the poor for growing pressure on the world's resources. But still the wealthy west takes the lion's share

Not having a written constitution allowed Blair and his advisers to go to war without reference to parliament or the public

America will keep on wrecking

America will keep on wrecking

All the talk in Bali about cut

Outdated figures have been hid

Biyoyakıtları teşvik eden hükümetler bu politikalarından vazgeçmezlerse, bunun insani etkisi Irak savaşındakinden de büyük olacak. Milyonlarca insan yerinden olacak, yüz milyonlarcası da açlıkla tehlikesi ile karşı karşıya kalacak.

When will the US and the UK te

Geçtiğimiz hafta küresel ısınmanın yeryüzündeki canlıların yarısını yok edebileceğini öğrendik, ama yine de herkes bir başkasının harekete geçmesini bekliyor ve seyrediyor. Konuşulmayan evrensel düşünce şu: "Eğer gerçekten çok ciddi bir durum olsaydı, birileri bir şey yapmaz mıydı?"

"The little-known ninth law of thermodynamics states that the more money a group receives from the taxpayer, the more it demands and the more it complains." Thus wrote Matt Ridley in 1994

Why won't Gary Player answer my questions about apartheid and evictions?

A vast new opencast pit will ruin local people's lives and wreck the government's climate change policies. How was it allowed to happen?

If you want to support democracy in Burma, phone Gary Player and the other western businessmen propping up the generals.

Heathrow'daki iklim kampı daha önceden Britanya'da yapılan protestolardan tamamen farklıydı. Britanya kamu yaşamında asla göremeyeceğiniz sahici bir katılımcı demokrasi gerçekleştirilebildi.

It was not flawless, but the climate camp was still the most democratic and best organised protest I've witnessed

Newspaper exhortations on climate change sit uncomfortably alongside promotions for budget flights and oil companies

By signing up to Bush's missile defence programme, the British government shows it doesn't give a damn about either peace or democracy

Medyanın güzellik, zenginlik ve ün takıntısı, dokunduğu her konuyu çarçur ediyor, ama hiçbirini yeşil politikalar kadar değil.

The middle classes congratulate themselves on going green, then carry on buying and flying as much as before