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George Joshua Richard Monbiot ist ein britischer Journalist, Autor, Universitätsdozent, Umweltschützer und politischer Aktivist. Seine Kolumne erscheint wöchentlich in der Zeitung The Guardian.



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✵ 27. Januar 1963
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“If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.”

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

“No political challenge can be met by shopping.”

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

“[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.”

"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.

“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.”

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

“Nobody ever rioted for austerity.”

Campaigning for Austerity (2005-02-03)

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

"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.”

"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.”

"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.

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