Tag: George Monbiot

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  George Monbiot on Junk Science, Rational Thought, and The Tragedy of Giving Up Nuclear (Podcast)

  The Guardian's George Monbiot talks about climate deniers, junk science, and the need for nuclear.

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  Are We Drowning in Dystopias?

  Images via Cop15 opening film 'Please Help The World' This is the first in a series of guest posts by journalist and climate change communications strategist Ella Saltmarshe When we think about the future of the world, it's mostly bad. I'm not sure when

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  Let's Do The Time Warp Again: Monbiot and May vs Lomberg and Lawson

  It is the battle of the M&Ms; vs the L&Ls; the Munk debate in Toronto about the statement "Climate change is mankind's defining crisis, and demands a commensurate international response" with Bjorn Lomberg and Nigel Lawson duking it out

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  Monbiot: Canada's Image in Tatters

  Since the Viet Nam war, Canadians (and some Americans) have been sewing Canadian flag patches on their backpacks when they travel to distinguish themselves from their neighbours. But they will be ripping them off soon, as the country becomes an

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  Plane Food Café Delivers the Joys of Flying Without The CO2

  George Monbiot told us that flying is dying; London artist Richard DeDomenici tells us that a return transatlantic flight is equivalent in CO2 and pollution output to driving a car 30 miles a day for a year. So the artist/humorist has

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  George Monbiot Says "Don't Blame the Fatties"

  Matt recently wrote Eat Like It's 1975 to Save the Planet: New Report Links Obesity, Energy Consumption & Climate Change, which said We need to be doing a lot more to reverse the global trend towards fatness, and recognize it as a

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  EvanEco goes to the Carnival, Monbiot on Biochar, Accidental Eco Maniac Highlights Women + Water, and More

  EvanEco: Carnival of the Green 172 by Don Bosch "Got milk? Grab a glass of the white stuff and a chocolate chip cookie, and join me for some green bloggy goodness..."Guardian Ethical Living: Ethical Superstore and Natural Collection merge into giant

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  Survey: Is There Room in the Environmental Movement for "Non-Scientific" Causes?

  George Monbiot is at it again, causing controversy by saying "Environmentalism may be emotional but it should always be based on science, not like the wishful thinking behind natural remedies."-Environmentalism must be fact based and there is no room

• Monbiot: Environmentalism and Alternative Medicine Shouldn't Mix

  Image credit: HowStuffWorks Environmentalism and Alternative Medicine - Oil and Water? George Monbiot is undoubtedly no stranger to controversy - my post about his climate change book, Heat, drew 81 comments, while his well publicized opposition to

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  Quote of the Day: George Monbiot on Handouts Resprayed Green

  In the UK and Canada, manufacturers are urging the government to give consumers money to get old cars off the road and into newer, lower emission vehicles and "catalyse a new low carbon transport revolution." George

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  Monbiot on Theft of our Past, Kunstler on our Future

  The American public is deathly afraid of the kind of changes we actually face -- such as, the end of consumer culture, the gross loss of value in suburban real estate (which

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  Biofuels Cannot Be Called Sustainable in UK Advert: Board Upholds George Monbiot's Complaint

  The debate over the true ecological sustainability of biofuels, the effects on global food prices, and their oft-heard claims of carbon-neutrality has been played out on TreeHugger in great detail. Adding a new

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  Another Quote of the Day: Two Views on Polar Bears

  In his erudite analysis of the global warming issue, Don Blankenship of Massey Coal expressed his opinion about the future of polar bears:

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  George Monbiot Is a "Fructivist"

  A lot of people have called George Monbiot a lot worse, but he calls himself a fructivist, which is not defined in any online dictionaries, but appears to derive from the latin fructificare or fructus, meaning fruit. He calls himself obsessed with

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  Final words from Be The Change 2007

  The Be The Change conference last week was chock-a-block full of fascinating speakers, enlightening information and inspiring actions. So far we've shared George Monbiot and Richard Reed's presentations and Drew Dellinger's poetry. We're just sorry we

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  George Monbiot: "We Need 100% Cut in Carbon Emissions"

  George Monbiot, everyone's favourite controversial climate commentator, launched the Be The Change conference with a bang here in London yesterday. He leaped off the starting blocks with the statement that not only is it imperative that we reduce Co2

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  Bianca Jagger, George Monbiot + Vandana Shiva Attend Be The Change

  The 2007 Be The Change Conference is fast approaching and has an amazing line up of speakers to inspire you with the theme "The Sky's the Limit". For the fourth year in a row the BTC conference brings together world leaders in sustainability and social

• "Why Not Have Another Go at Exxon Instead?" Bibi van der Zee Takes on Monbiot

  The Guardian columnist and environmental thinker George Monbiot usually manages to provoke a strong debate in our comments sections. Some time ago, our post on his new book Heat raised a fierce exchange of views about the impacts of flying, meanwhile his