George Monbiot

George Monbiot raises some legitimate concerns about the management of parts of our national parks (Here's a novel idea: protecting wildlife in our national parks, 28 February) but to write off all 15 of them entirely is nonsense. Monbiot says: “Much of the land in our national parks is systematically burned.

On the back page George Monbiot rounds things off with an impassioned rallying call for social communities as bringers of human wellbeing, drawing on the particular example of Frome in south-west England. Frome is not a town I've visited before but after reading George's piece, it's on my list of places to ...

As the founder of HelpForce, a new organisation using the power of volunteering to improve health and wellbeing, it is exciting but not surprising to see evidence that hospital admissions fell when isolated people in Somerset were supported by volunteers (George Monbiot, Journal, 21 February). With the ...

George Monbiot. Frome in Somerset has seen a dramatic fall in emergency hospital admissions since it began a collective project to combat isolation. There are lessons for the rest of the country. Contact author. @GeorgeMonbiot. Wed 21 Feb 2018 00.59 EST Last modified on Mon 26 Feb 2018 09.26 EST. Share on ...

I found very interesting your 7 February column in the Guardian on the robotisation of work, occasioned by Amazon's new patent for a wristband that can track what workers are doing throughout their shift. I agree with your observation, “Digital Taylorism, splitting interesting jobs into tasks of mind-robbing ...

Resist a US trade deal. Your life may depend on it. George Monbiot. We cannot trust our government to fight America's disgusting farming practices. Unless we mobilise, US livestock pumped full of antibiotics will harm us all. Contact author. @GeorgeMonbiot. Wed 14 Feb 2018 01.00 EST Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2018 ...

As robots take our jobs, we need something else. I know what that is. George Monbiot. It's untenable to let salaried work define us. In the future, what we do for society unpaid should be at least as important. Contact author. @GeorgeMonbiot. Wed 7 Feb 2018 01.00 EST Last modified on Wed 7 Feb 2018 07.01 EST.

It's clear within the first few minutes of The Week's interview with George Monbiot that the writer, polemicist and environmentalist is not afraid of tackling contentious topics head on. And the economic crisis that Monbiot predicts looks ever more possible following the PFI scandals that marked 2018's early ...