Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
George MonbiotDeregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.
George MonbiotAlmost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.
George MonbiotAll the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.
George MonbiotThe angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.
George Monbiot