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George Monbiot is a British writer, environmental activist, and journalist, known for his profound insights and critical analysis of environmental issues. His work covers a wide range of topics, including climate change, consumerism, political corruption, and biodiversity.

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“We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.”

Wells Seems Government Asks Easy Difficult Raises Wrecks Biosphere

Book:Heat: how to stop the planet from burning

Source: Heat: how to stop the planet from burning

“Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management.”

“Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.”

Bigs Government Hate Party Claims Conservative Transfers Big Government Treading Conservative Party Deregulation

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“There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.”

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“The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship, and they have taken advantage of our neglect to seize the reins of government.”

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Born: January 27, 1963
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 52

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Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human LifeRelated source material

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