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Environment: George Monbiot's blog | guardian.co.uk
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The Guardian's George Monbiot blogs on the environment, social justice, and other things that make him angry
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The energy bill is misleading, manipulative and destructive – and so are Daveys claims | George Mon...

Ed Davey has manipulated quotes to support the bill and a clause has been inserted to allow any coal plant to be builtMy conversation with Ed Davey began badly. Two weeks ago the Liberal Democrat sec...

2 days ago

Stop this mad move to capture buzzards and destroy their nests | George Monbiot

The government has no responsibility to protect pheasant shoots from our native wildlife, so why is Defra pushing a plan that will damage a protected species?David Cameron must have been having a lau...

24 may 12

The UKs marine reserves are nothing but paper parks | George Monbiot

The government is in breach of its promise to create a network of marine conservation zones by 2012What do the terms "marine reserve" and "marine-protected area" conjure up for you? P...

10 may 12

Protesting against mobiles is damaging the environmental movement | George Monbiot

As a new study shows that mobile phone usage is not a health risk, campaigners should concentrate on other targetsOne of the central tenets of environmentalism is that resources should be used as car...

27 apr 12

Richard Benyon, the minister destroying what he is paid to protect | George Monbiot

With his lucrative Benyons Inclosure quarrying project, the environment minister risks a shameless conflict of interestsLike several other Conservative ministers, Richard Benyon is extremely rich. Li...

20 apr 12

Why I am urging David Cameron to act against Friends of the Earth | George Monbiot

Former directors of the group have written to the prime minister suggesting he abandons new nuclear plants. This demands a responseHad I wondered, 10 years ago, what I would be doing in 2012, signing...

15 mar 12

Too many deer for too few people – a self-defeating study of the Highlands | George Monbiot

A paper by the Scottish Gamekeepers Association argues in favour of deer-stalking by the rich on the grounds that it is uneconomicIve read too many daft reports in the course of this job, but I dont ...

02 mar 12

Anything to declare, Mr Booker? We need transparency about Heartland | George Monbiot

Youd hope that, as Private Eyes founding editor, Christopher Booker would declare hospitality received from the Heartland InstituteI see Peter Gleick, the man who obtained and leaked the devastating ...

24 feb 12

Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice? | George Monbiot

When Oxfam investigates the question of whether environment conflicts with development, we should take noticeIt is the stick with which the greens are beaten daily: if we spend money on protecting th...

13 feb 12

Its not the second coming, but Waless bag charge is welcome and overdue | George Monbiot

Welsh assembly government has stood up to the supermarkets, and hasnt restricted the charge to plastic bags onlyIts littler and later than first proposed, but Im not knocking it: the Welsh carrier ba...

30 sep 11

Charles Hendrys fracking response raises more questions than it answers | George Monbiot

There are still some major concerns about shale gas drilling that the energy and climate change minister is swervingBeware of mining companies claiming vast finds.History is littered with news of dis...

23 sep 11

How the UKs zoophobic legacy turned on wild boar | George Monbiot

Farming Todays framing of the issue illustrates a peculiar desire to keep ecosystems in a state of arrested developmentIs the United Kingdom the most zoophobic nation in Europe? Do we, in other words...

16 sep 11

The UKs lack of fracking regulation is insane | George Monbiot

The UK government must not permit further drilling of shale gas until we can be assured that fracking is safeBefore the government approves a new industrial process in the UK it must have ensured tha...

31 aug 11

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