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New reports tell us cattle and sheep farming can be sustainable – don’t believe them, it’s all bull | George Monbiot

The fire that has just destroyed 500 hectares (1,230 acres) of Dartmoor should have been impossible. It should not be…

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The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear an Evan Davis podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot

It’s no longer even pretending. Last week, the BBC, already the UK’s most prolific censor, instructed the presenter Evan Davis…

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Environment

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot

Those of us who try to defend wildlife are horribly familiar with bad laws. But we’ve never seen anything like…

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Environment

What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on UK farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot

If humanity has an epitaph, it might read something like this: “Knackered by the things we missed.” It is true…

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The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why | George Monbiot

In thinking about the war being waged against life on Earth by Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their minions, I…

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There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens | George Monbiot

Though we might find it hard to imagine, we cannot now rule it out: the possibility of systemic collapse in…

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It’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government | George Monbiot

This might sound astonishing, but the UK government’s core programme now appears to be the same as Donald Trump’s: dismantling…

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Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot

I can scarcely believe I’m writing this, but it’s hard to dodge the conclusion. After 14 years of environmental vandalism,…

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Environment

Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot

Build baby, build. That’s about the intellectual limit of the government’s housing strategy. Millions are under-housed, so let’s “bulldoze” the…

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