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Thursday 19 September 2013
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Activists on patrol during a badger cull protest. Photograph: Christopher Jones/Alamy
George Monbiot: An encounter with badger protesters highlights a deference to power that is part of a pattern pre-dating formal police forces
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Friday 30 August 2013
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If I could disprove David Bellamy's contention that windfarms are useless, he would accept climate change science. Photograph: David Cheskin/PA
George Monbiot: Fossil fuels seldom bother us, so we seldom consider their impact, but fracking forces us to face the uncomfortable reality
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Thursday 15 August 2013
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Britain's indigenous oaks, like this example, harbour 284 insect species. Horse chestnut, introduced from the Balkans, hosts four. Photograph: Simon Hathaway/Alamy
The differences can be stark and remarkable: native trees tend to harbour far more wildlife than exotic species. Continue reading...
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Monday 5 August 2013
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George Monbiot: UK is collaborating in peddling the corporate line that the toxic insecticides are safe to use – they are anything but Continue reading...
A farmer spraying crops with insecticide in Bedfordshire. Photograph: David Wootton/Alamy
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Monday 8 July 2013
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'Last month the National Farmers’ Union and its counterparts in other European countries succeeded in demolishing attempts to green the Common Agricultural Policy.' Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images
George Monbiot: The NFU's grip on agricultural policy helps enrich millionaire landowners while destroying biodiversity, polluting water and wiping out pollinators
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Friday 21 June 2013
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Solar power works less well in terms of replacing conventional electricity in the UK. Photograph: Martin Godwin for The Guardian
George Monbiot: Solar may be popular but environmentalists must be hard-headed about how to reduce CO2 in the cheapest way
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Thursday 6 June 2013
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Following successful beaver reintroductions in two parts of Scotland, the first release in Wales could be about to happen. Photograph: Peter Lilja/Getty Images
George Monbiot: The response by farmers' leaders to the idea of 'rewilding' shows how unaccustomed to challenge they are
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Wednesday 22 May 2013
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George Monbiot: The hills have been grazed to destruction and it's time we begin to challenge the irrational aspects of the farming funding system Continue reading...
The Quiraing, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Photograph: Andrew Cawley/Alamy
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Friday 10 May 2013
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George Monbiot: The only way forward is back: to retrace our steps and seek to return atmospheric concentrations to around 350ppm Continue reading...
Reaching 400ppm is a moment of symbolic significance, a station on the Via Dolorosa of environmental destruction. Photograph: Corbis
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Wednesday 1 May 2013
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Sir Mark Walport, the government's new chief scientist, 'doesn’t seem to understand what the precautionary principle means.' Photograph: Rex Features
George Monbiot: The UK government does not possess a definition of the principle at the heart of environmental protection and law
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Thursday 25 April 2013
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Volunteer Ziggy Sinnette (right) with pupils from Culvers House Primary School in Mitcham, south London, release trout into the River Wandle (Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian)
A fish-restocking programme is bringing this deeply mysterious animal back to cities and 'rewilding' the children who breed them
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Friday 12 April 2013
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George Monbiot: We have offshored the problem of escalating consumption, and our perceptions of it, by considering only territorial emissions Continue reading...
A Chinese factory worker operates a loom at a textile manufacturing factory in Beijing. Photograph: How Hwee Young/EPA
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Thursday 4 April 2013
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Richard Benyon 'repeatedly wields his power in ways that promote his own interests'. Photograph: Chris Ison/PA
George Monbiot: The environment minister is being permitted to oversee a highly sensitive issue in which he has an active proprietorial stake
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Thursday 14 March 2013
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George Monbiot: Like all nations extending the fossil fuel frontier, Japan is adding to the mountain of fossil fuels we cannot responsibly burn Continue reading...
There may be catastrophic release of gas from methane hydrates buried beneath the deep sea. Photograph: Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images
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Thursday 28 February 2013
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No Dash for Gas activists occupy the West Burton Power Station in November 2012. Photograph: No Dash for Gas
George Monbiot: EDF will lose this petty and anti-democratic fight against the climate activists – and it will cost them their reputation
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