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Famous George Monbiot Quotes

“If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.”

George Monbiot

"The Self-Attribution Fallacy" http://www.monbiot.com/2011/11/07/the-self-attribution-fallacy/, 7 November 2011.

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

George Monbiot

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

George Monbiot

“[About the Paris Agreement:] By comparison to what it could have been, it’s a miracle. By comparison to what it should have been, it’s a disaster.”

George Monbiot

"Grand promises of Paris climate deal undermined by squalid retrenchments" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2015/dec/12/paris-climate-deal-governments-fossil-fuels, The Guardian, 12 December 2015.

“No political challenge can be met by shopping.”

George Monbiot

Eco-junk http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/07/24/eco-junk/ (2007-07-24)

“Nobody ever rioted for austerity.”

George Monbiot

Campaigning for Austerity (2005-02-03)

George Monbiot Quotes about people

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

George Monbiot

Campaigning for Austerity (2005-02-03)

“People in eastern Congo are massacred to facilitate smart phone upgrades of ever diminishing marginal utility. Forests are felled to make “personalised heart-shaped wooden cheese board sets”. Rivers are poisoned to manufacture talking fish. This is pathological consumption: a world-consuming epidemic of collective madness, rendered so normal by advertising and the media that we scarcely notice what has happened to us.”

George Monbiot

"The Gift of Death" http://www.monbiot.com/2012/12/10/the-gift-of-death/, The Guardian, 11 December 2012.

“Capitalism has three innate characteristics that drive us towards destruction… firstly, that it generates and relies upon perpetual growth... (Second:)…the idea that our right to own natural wealth equates to the amount of money that we’ve got in the bank or we can borrow. So, you can take as much natural wealth away from other people as you like.... The third characteristic is the one that really ensures that people go along with capitalism, the idea that everyone can pursue — and can expect to find — private luxury.”

George Monbiot

Quoted by Lee Camp, Pandemic is Not Just a Crisis, It’s Also a Gift, Consortium News https://consortiumnews.com/2020/04/23/lee-camp-pandemic-is-not-just-a-crisis-its-also-a-gift/, (23 April 2020)

“There are two ways this could go. We could, as some people have done, double down on denial. Some of those who have dismissed other threats, such as climate breakdown, also seek to downplay the threat of Covid-19... Or this could be the moment when we begin to see ourselves, once more, as governed by biology and physics, and dependent on a habitable planet. Never again should we listen to the liars and the deniers. Never again should we allow a comforting falsehood to trounce a painful truth. No longer can we afford to be dominated by those who put money ahead of life...”

George Monbiot

Covid-19 is nature's wake-up call to complacent civilisation https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/25/covid-19-is-natures-wake-up-call-to-complacent-civilisation?, The Guardian, 25 March 2020

George Monbiot Quotes

“While there are many reasons for the growth of individualism in the UK, the extreme libertarianism now beginning to take hold here begins on the road. When you drive, society becomes an obstacle.”

George Monbiot

The Anti-Socialist Bastards in Our Midst http://www.monbiot.com/2005/12/20/the-anti-social-bastards-in-our-midst/ (2005-12-20)

“We are the most fortunate generation that has ever lived. And we are the most fortunate generation that ever will.”

George Monbiot

Heat - How to Stop the Planet From Burning (2006-10-17)

“Because we cannot save ourselves without contesting oligarchic control, the fight for democracy and justice and the fight against environmental breakdown are one and the same. Do not allow those who have caused this crisis to define the limits of political action. Do not allow those whose magical thinking got us into this mess to tell us what can and cannot be done.”

George Monbiot

The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us, 2018

Fight , Democracy , Thinking , Justice

“Climate breakdown could be rapid and unpredictable. We can no longer tinker around the edges and hope minor changes will avert collapse.”

George Monbiot

The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us, 2018

Hope , Change

“Everything has been globalised, except our consent. Democracy alone has been confined to the nation state. It stands at the border, suitcase in hand, without a passport.”

George Monbiot

The Age of Consent (2003)

Democracy

“Of all the varieties of media bias, the deepest is the bias against relevance. The more important the issue, the less it is discussed.”

George Monbiot

"Stop eating fish. It’s the only way to save the life in our seas" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/09/seas-stop-eating-fish-fishing-industry-government, The Guardian, 9 May 2019.

“Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity.”

George Monbiot

"Dare to declare capitalism dead – before it takes us all down with it" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/25/capitalism-economic-system-survival-earth, The Guardian, 25 April 2019.

“While we call ourselves animal lovers, and lavish kindness on our dogs and cats, we inflict brutal deprivations on billions of animals that are just as capable of suffering. The hypocrisy is so rank that future generations will marvel at how we could have failed to see it.”

George Monbiot

"Goodbye – and good riddance – to livestock farming" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/04/livestock-farming-artificial-meat-industry-animals, The Guardian, 4 October 2017.

Future , Dogs , Suffering , Cats