While some people have rejected capitalism gladly and swiftly, I’ve done so slowly and reluctantly. Part of the reason was that I could see no clear alternative: unlike some anti-capitalists, I have never been an enthusiast for state communism. George Monbiot Read Quote
I became an environmentalist because I love the living world, but I spend much of my life thinking about electricity, industrial processes and civil engineering. George Monbiot Read Quote
What I love about natural climate solutions is that we should be doing all these things anyway. Instead of making painful choices and deploying miserable means to a desirable end, we can defend ourselves from disaster by enhancing our world of wonders. George Monbiot Read Quote
Technological change is essential, but to a natural historian it often feels cold and distancing. George Monbiot Read Quote
Yes, the car is still useful – for a few people it’s essential. It would make a good servant. But it has become our master, and it spoils everything it touches. George Monbiot Read Quote
Brexit, for all its likely harms, represents an opportunity to pay landowners and tenants to do something completely different, rather than spending yet more public money on trashing our life-support systems. George Monbiot Read Quote
I want to be represented by people who are thoughtful, self-aware and collaborative. What would a system that elevated such people look like? George Monbiot Read Quote
I believe that anyone who wants to stand in a national election should receive a course of psychotherapy. Completing the course should be a qualification for office. This wouldn’t change the behaviour of psychopaths, but it might prevent some people who exercise power from imposing their own deep wounds on others. George Monbiot Read Quote
In politics, almost everywhere we see what looks like the externalisation of psychic wounds or deficits. George Monbiot Read Quote
There is plenty of housing – for the rich. But a series of outrageous policies ensure that it remains inaccessible to the poor. George Monbiot Read Quote
