George Monbiot

If it's unethical to eat British beef, it's 100 times worse to eat Brazilian - but imports have nearly doubled this year

The evidence is clear that murder, venereal disease and marital breakdown are all more common in religious cultures.

The police abuse terror and harassment laws to penalise dissent while we insist civil liberties are our gift to the world

We had better start preparing for a decline in global oil supply

The democratic potential of the new media is being blocked by the companies providing the technology.

By hailing the failure of this summer's G8 summit as a success, Bob Geldof has betrayed the poor of Africa

Nicaragua and South Africa, not the US, should be the inspiration for the people framing Iraq's constitution.

Kenneth Clarke's role in the morally dubious British American Tobacco renders him unfit for public office

I'm not ashamed of my nationality, but I have no idea why I should love this country more than any other

In just a few months, Bush and Blair have destroyed global restraint on the development of nuclear weapons

Instead of denying climate change is happening, the US now denies that we need proper regulation to stop it

The US and Britain are putting the multinational corporations that created poverty in charge of its relief

On November 8 1989, Margaret Thatcher shocked the UN with a speech on global warming. We publish an edited extract, and below, George Monbiot offers an assessment of how far we've come since

Show me an environmentalist, and I will show you a hypocrite. In an interview with the Guardian recently, Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay and all-round good guy, spoke of his concerns about climate change.

All it has delivered is one financial scandal after another - but the government remains wedded to PFI

Far from challenging the G8's role in Africa's poverty, Geldof and Bono are giving legitimacy to those responsible

The G8 plan to save Africa comes with conditions that make it little more than an extortion racket

The UK and EU are keeping the poorer nations exactly where they want them: beholden to their patrons.

Faced with a choice between market freedom and human life, governments have chosen to preserve the former

Superstores' hunger for control of magazine and newspaper delivery gnaws at the ankles of democracy.

David Bellamy's inaccurate and selective figures on glacier shrinkage are a boon to climate change deniers

We need to be honest. Wind farms are a necessary evil, but they will not overcome the crisis of climate change.

Many left-leaning dissidents plan to vote Liberal Democrat. But that will send Labour a mixed message

Modern capitalists understand the ideas of the co-op but, as at Rover, they only apply them for profit

The corporate manslaughter bill has been neutered to please employers.

A coup against social Europe has been foiled - for the time being

How can MPs properly represent us when they are earning up to 95% of their income from outside interests?

Terörizm söz konusu olduğunda, "demek ki öldürülebilecek kadar önemliyiz" diye düşünüyoruz! Ama iklim değişikliği söz konusu olduğunda bütün söylenen, fıçıdaki mayanın kendi atıklarıyla zehirlenene kadar nasıl beslenip büyüdüğü... Bu da gururumuzun kabul edemeyeceği kadar sefil bir son.

If you want to know how a leaflet could be seen as a criminal weapon, take a look at the new crime bill.

The reality of climate change is that the engines of progress have merely accelerated our rush to the brink