George Monbiot Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
January 27, 1963

George Joshua Richard Monbiot is a British writer known for his environmental and political activism. He writes a weekly column for The Guardian, and is the author of a number of books, including Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain, Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding and Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics in the Age of Crisis . He is the founder of The Land is Ours, a campaign for the right of access to the countryside and its resources in the United Kingdom.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

George Monbiot
Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.

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- Choose
- Survival
- Faced

Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality

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- Economic
- Planet
- Systems
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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August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

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- Remember
- August
- Raving
In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

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Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well as the intellect. It inspires belief; and this is essential to the lasting success of any movement.

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So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.

George Monbiot

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

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- Change
- Conviction
- Voting
When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

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- Change
- Stop
- Explain