George Monbiot is a journalist, academic and political and environmental activist.

Monbiot spent over 7 years travelling abroad as an investigative journalist in Indonesia, East Africa and Brazil, surviving cerebral malaria, attacks from military police and poisoning by hornets. He then returned to Britain, where he became active in the environmental movement.

He is co-founder of the environmental pressure group The Land is Ours, and is active in the British roads protest movement. Monbiot writes a weekly column for the Guardian and is a visiting professor at Oxford Brookes University.

The recipient of many awards, in 1995 Monbiot was presented with the United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement by Nelson Mandela. Monbiot is also honorary professor at the department of philosophy at Keele University.George Monbiot is the author of several books, including The Age of Consent: A manifesto for a new world order (2004), and Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain (2000). He has contributed to openDemocracy debates covering democracy and globalisation.

Recent articles

George Monbiot responds to Grahame Thompson’s lengthy critique of his vision of 21st century global governance.

What kind of radicalism can help turn protest against injustice into a coherent movement for a progressive global politics? Here, leading voices of different generations – Todd Gitlin (‘Letters to a Young Activist’) and George Monbiot (‘The Age of Consent’) – discuss activism, nationalism, violence, and world government in an interview with Anthony Barnett and Caspar Henderson of openDemocracy.

George Monbiot, the leading environmental activist and writer, has been involved in many global campaigns of resistance to corporate and state power. But what positive social and political vision animates his work? Where does it contrast with that of globalisation’s advocates like Maria Cattaui, Peter Sutherland, and George Soros? And how does he see the future of the internationalist movement in the light of the ‘war on terrorism’?