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English writer and political activist

George Monbiot
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Monbiot in October 2013
Built-in (1963-01-27) 27 January 1963 (age 59)

Kensington, London, England
Alma mater Brasenose Higher, Oxford
Occupation Journalist
Spouse(south) Angharad Penrhyn Jones (m. 2006; div. 2010)
Children 2
Awards United Nations Global 500 Honour (1995)
Website https://www.monbiot.com/

George Joshua Richard Monbiot ( Mon-bee-oh; built-in 27 January 1963) is a British author known for his environmental and political activism.[2] [3] He writes a weekly column for The Guardian, and is the writer of a number of books, including Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain (2000), Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding (2013) and Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics in the Age of Crunch (2017).[four]

He is the founder of The State is Ours, a campaign for the right of access to the countryside and its resources in the United Kingdom.[five]

Early life [edit]

Born in Kensington, Monbiot grew upwards in Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire in a business firm next to Peppard Common.[6] [seven] Politics was at the heart of family life – his male parent, Raymond Geoffrey Monbiot, CBE,[eight] is a man of affairs who headed the Conservative Party'due south merchandise and industry forum,[v] while his mother, Rosalie – the elder daughter of Conservative MP Roger Gresham Cooke[9] – was a Conservative councillor who led Due south Oxfordshire District Council for a decade.[10] His uncle, Canon Hereward Cooke, was the Liberal Democrat deputy leader of Norwich City Quango between 2002 and 2006.[11]

Monbiot was educated at a preparatory boarding school between 1971 and 1976. He did not enjoy his time there, later believing that boarding school destroys one's imagination. He was so educated at Stowe School, a public school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire.[12] [13] He won an open scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford.[14] He stated that his "political awakening" was prompted by reading Bettina Ehrlich'due south book, Paolo and Panetto, while at his prep school,[15] [xvi] and that he regretted attending Oxford, stating that his fourth dimension there was unhappy and he did not fit in with Brasenose'south culture.[17]

Career [edit]

Later graduating with a caste in zoology, Monbiot joined the BBC Natural History Unit of measurement as a radio producer, making natural history and ecology programmes. He transferred to the BBC's World Service, where he worked briefly as a current affairs producer and presenter, before leaving to inquiry and write his offset book.

Working as an investigative journalist, he travelled in Indonesia, Brazil, and East Africa. His activities led to his existence made persona not grata in seven countries[xviii] and being sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia in Republic of indonesia.[19] In these places, he was besides shot at,[twenty] beaten upward by military law,[20] shipwrecked[20] and stung into a poisoned blackout by hornets.[21] He came dorsum to work in U.k. after beingness pronounced clinically dead in Lodwar General Hospital in north-western Kenya, having contracted cognitive malaria.[22]

He joined the British roads protest movement and was oftentimes called to give printing interviews; equally a result he was denounced as a "media tart"[23] past groups such every bit Green Anarchist and Class War. He was attacked past security guards, who allegedly drove a metal spike through his foot, neat the center metatarsal bone. His injuries left him in hospital.[24] Sir Crispin Tickell, a former United Nations diplomat, who was then Warden at Greenish College, Oxford, made the immature protester a Visiting Fellow.[25]

In November 2012, he apologised to Lord McAlpine for his "stupidity and thoughtlessness" in implying, in a tweet, that the Conservative peer was a paedophile.[26] [27] [28]

In 2014, Monbiot wrote an commodity on the theme of loneliness.[29] This led to a collaboration with musician Ewan McLennan. Together they released an album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness in Oct 2016 followed by a tour of the UK.[30] [31] Folk Radio described information technology as "an enthralling album" where "Each song is a short, eloquent and idea provoking essay on the devastation of our humanity and how it tin exist regained".[32]

Monbiot narrated the video How Wolves Alter Rivers [33] which was based on his TED talk of 2013[34] on the restoration of ecosystems and landscape (rewilding) when wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone Park.[33] In 2019, Monbiot co-presented Nature Now,[35] a video about natural climate solutions, with Greta Thunberg.

Monbiot was moved to tears on the 18 November 2021 edition of Good Morning Britain on the difficulty on getting people to recognise the climate crisis while discussing Insulate United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland protests. While describing the film Don't Look Up in early on2022, Monbiot explains how difficult it is to campaign for the preservation of Earth in the confront of overwhelming inaction.[36]

Activism [edit]

Climatic change [edit]

Monbiot believes that drastic activity coupled with strong political will is needed to combat global warming.[37] To reduce his personal impact on the environment, he has transitioned to a vegan lifestyle and encourages others to do the same.[38]

Attempted arrest of John Bolton [edit]

Monbiot made an unsuccessful endeavor to carry out a denizen'southward arrest of John Bolton, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, when the latter attended the Hay Festival to requite a talk on international relations in May 2008. Monbiot argued that Bolton was one of the instigators of the Iraq War, of which Monbiot was an opponent.[39]

Politics [edit]

In Jan 2004, Monbiot and Salma Yaqoob co-founded Respect – The Unity Coalition (later formally the Respect Party) which grew out of the Stop the War Coalition.[40] He resigned from the grouping the following February when Respect failed to reach agreement with the Green Political party not to stand candidates in the same constituencies in the forthcoming 2004 European Parliament election.[41]

In an interview with the British political blog Third Estate in September 2009, Monbiot expressed his back up for the policies of Plaid Cymru, proverb "I have finally found the party that I experience very comfy with. That'due south not to say I experience uncomfortable with the Green Party, on the whole I support it, but I feel even more comfy with Plaid."[42]

In April 2010, he was a signatory to an open letter of the alphabet of support for the Liberal Democrats, published in The Guardian.[43] Prior to the May 2015 Uk general election, he was one of several public figures who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Dark-green Party'southward Caroline Lucas.[44] In the election he also endorsed the Green Party as a whole.[45] In August 2015, Monbiot endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.[46] In April 2017, he announced his intention to vote for the Labour Party in the 2017 general election.[47] [48] [49] In August 2021, he endorsed Tamsin Omond and Amelia Womack in the 2021 Dark-green Party of England and Wales leadership election.[50]

Monbiot, who has warned that Britain is at risk of condign a failed country,[51] is a supporter of Scottish independence, Welsh independence and Irish reunification.[52] On 11 Feb 2021, whilst on BBC Two's Politics Alive, he said, "If I lived in Scotland, I'd want to leave of this decadent, dysfunctional, chaotic union as quickly equally possible. And the aforementioned applies to Wales, the aforementioned applies to Northern Ireland. I tin't meet the signal of staying in the Uk, of being chained to the United Kingdom similar a cake of physical, as the boat begins to founder."[53] [54]

Published works [edit]

Monbiot's first book was Poisoned Arrows (1989), which is about what he called the "devastating furnishings" of the partially World Bank-funded transmigration plan on the peoples and tribes of West Papua, a nation annexed by Indonesia. It was followed by Amazon Watershed (1991), which documented expulsions of Brazilian peasant farmers from their land and followed them thousands of miles beyond the forest to the territory of the indigenous Yanomami people. Monbiot too documented instances of timber beingness illegally cutting from Indian reserves by Brazilian companies and being sold in the Britain. His tertiary volume, No Human's Land: An Investigative Journey Through Kenya and Tanzania (1994), documented the seizure of land and cattle from nomadic people in Kenya and the Tanzania, by—among other forces—game parks and safari tourism.

In 2000, he published Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Great britain. The book examines the role of corporate power in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, on both local and national levels, and argues that corporate involvement in politics is a serious threat to democracy. Subjects discussed in the book include the building of the Skye Bridge, corporate interest in the National Health Service, the function of business in university research, and the atmospheric condition which influence the granting of planning permission.

His fifth book, The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New Earth Order, was published in 2003. The book is an effort to set out a positive manifesto for change for the global justice movement. Monbiot criticises anarchism and Marxism, arguing that whatsoever possible solution to the globe's inequalities must be rooted in a democratic parliamentary arrangement.[55]

Monbiot's adjacent volume, Heat: How to Stop the Planet Called-for, published in 2006, focused on the result of climatic change.

Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding was published in 2013, and focuses on the concept of rewilding the planet.[56] In the book, Monbiot attacks sheep farming every bit "a ho-hum-burning ecological disaster, which has done more harm to the living systems of this country than either climate change or industrial pollution. Yet scarcely anyone seems to accept noticed."[57] He particularly looks at sheep farming in Wales. The volume received favourable reviews in The Spectator [58] and The Daily Telegraph.[57] It won the Social club of Biological science Book Accolade for general biology in 2014.[59]

Monbiot's weekly cavalcade for The Guardian has covered a variety of issues, concentrating on political philosophy in relation to ecological and social issues, specially in the Uk.[60]

Personal life [edit]

Monbiot has lived in Oxford for many years, but for a few years from 2007, lived in a low emissions business firm in the market town of Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, originally with his then-wife, writer and campaigner Angharad Penrhyn Jones, and their girl.[61] Because his new partner lives in Oxford, Monbiot returned by 2012.[62] The couple'due south daughter, Monbiot'southward second, was born in early 2012.[63] In December 2017, Monbiot was diagnosed with prostate cancer; he had surgery in March 2018.[64] [65]

Honours [edit]

In 1995, Nelson Mandela presented him with a United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement.[66] He was a finalist in the Lloyds National Screenwriting Prize[67] with his screenplay The Norwegian, and won a Sony Award for radio product, the Sir Peter Kent Accolade and the OneWorld National Press Honor.[68] In Nov 2007, his book Heat was awarded the Premio Mazotti, an Italian book prize, but he was denied the money given with the prize because he chose not to travel to Venice to collect information technology in person, arguing that it was not a practiced enough reason to justify flying. In 2017, he was a recipient of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award for his piece of work at The Guardian.[69]

Selected works [edit]

  • (1989). Poisoned Arrows: An investigative journey through the forbidden lands of West Papua. London: Abacus. ISBN 0-7181-3153-3
  • (1991). Amazon Watershed: The new environmental investigation. London: Abacus. ISBN 0-7181-3428-ane
  • (1992). Mahogany is Murder: Mahogany Extraction from Indian Reserves in Brazil. ISBN i-85750-160-8
  • (1994). No Man'southward Land: An Investigative Journeying Through Republic of kenya and Tanzania. Picador. ISBN 0-333-60163-7
  • (2000). Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-90164-9
  • (2003). The Age of Consent. Flamingo. ISBN 0-00-715042-3
  • (2004). Manifesto for a New World Order. The New Press. ISBN 1-56584-908-half dozen
  • (2006). Estrus: How to Stop the Planet Burning. Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-9923-3
  • (2008). Bring on the Apocalypse: Half-dozen Arguments for Global Justice. Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-84354-656-six
  • (2013). Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1-84614-748-7
  • (2016). How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature. London: Verso.
  • (2017). Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crunch. London: Verso. ISBN 978-one-78663-289-0

See also [edit]

  • Individual and political action on climate change

References [edit]

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  29. ^ Monbiot, George (fourteen October 2014). "The age of loneliness is killing us". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  30. ^ Hughes, Tim (12 January 2017). "'No more than lone nights' - George Monbiot and Ewan McLennan bring us together to fight isolation". Oxford Times . Retrieved 13 June 2017.
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  69. ^ "2017 SEAL Environmental Journalism Honour Winners - SEAL Awards". SEAL Awards. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2017.

External links [edit]

External video
video icon Neoliberalism, Climate Change, Migration: George Monbiot in conversation with Verso on YouTube
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