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	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Heat by George Monbiot
		What George Monbiot means by this is that our civilization has leveraged the awesome power of fossil energy to create a world that only a short time ago would have been nearly unimaginable.
		George Monbiot brushes aside our rationalizations to maintain the status quo, shallow targets and mechanisms, and the empty promises of political rhetoric and corporate PR spin, to examine the real opportunities and what has to be done to achieve up to 90 percent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by the industrialized nations.”
		George Monbiot is one of Britain’s foremost thinkers and activists.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385662215 (2220 words)

	George Monbiot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Monbiot (born January 27, 1963) is a journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist in the United Kingdom who writes a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper.
		Monbiot's father, Raymond, is the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party and Chairman of the National Convention.
		George Monbiot’s first book was Poisoned Arrows (1989), a work of investigative travel journalism criticising the treatment of the indigenous people of West Papua by the Indonesian government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Monbiot (863 words)

	openDemocracy Author -George Monbiot
		George Monbiot is a journalist, academic and political and environmental activist.
		Monbiot writes a weekly column for the Guardian and is a visiting professor at Oxford Brookes University.
		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).
	www.opendemocracy.net /author/George_Monbiot.jsp (221 words)

	CNN.com - Q&A: George Monbiot - March 9, 2001
		Monbiot: The pharmaceutical companies insist they have an absolute right to make as much money from their drugs as they can, but it seems to me that that right is a far lesser right than the right of ordinary people not to die from diseases like AIDS.
		Monbiot: Well, the drug companies have reduced their prices -- in some cases by quite a significant margin -- but they're are still far too expensive for the average South African farmer or shanty dweller whose weekly income is just a few pounds, if that.
		Monbiot: There's no question that all governments have responsibilities to protect the health of their citizens, and it's not just a matter for international actions, it's also a matter for national action.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/03/09/Monbiot.interview (617 words)

	The Flip Flopping Of George Monbiot
		Monbiot and his ilk are part and parcel of the “mainstream political process,” especially considering the degree of foundation funding and support his cherished “movements” receive, from the likes of the Ford, Schumann, Rockefeller, and MacArthur foundations, to name but a handful.
		Monbiot needs to have a long hard think about what he is doing by decrying our movement and those like it as a mortal danger to those he associates himself with.
		George Monbiot's flip flopping bears this out, and highlights the fact that if we all stick to the same course we will prevail in the end, if we deviate, divide, bicker and rant we may fail.
	www.infowars.net /articles/february2007/210207Monbiot_ineffectual.htm (1504 words)

	Qlipoth: George Monbiot gags George Monbiot
		There is indeed, as Monbiot says, an "epidemic of gibberish" doing the rounds, and it is not pleasant to see him and Alexander Cockburn succumbing to it.
		This is, of course, the same George Moronbiot whose father, Raymond, is the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party and Chairman of the National Convention and whose mother, Rosalie, is a Conservative councillor who led South Oxford district council for a decade.
		George Moronbiot also wrote a book, 'The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order', a New World Order where Anarchism and Communism are very, very, very bad indeed and mustn't exist.
	qlipoth.blogspot.com /2007/02/george-monbiot-gags-george-monbiot.html (825 words)

	Review of George Monbiot's "Heat" \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		George Monbiot's book Heat is devoted entirely to answering the question What Do We Do To Stop It.
		Monbiot quickly dismisses voluntary approaches to achieving these ends, and asserts that "unfashionable" strict government regulation and compliance enforcement will be essential to success.
		Monbiot is scornful of the 'light green' technophiles who believe (because it's easy) that new technologies will allow us to innovate our way to solutions to global warming.
	www.energybulletin.net /22176.html (2661 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| What the world needs now
		George Monbiot offers a searchingly rigorous analysis of the sources of American power and presents a package of proposals that would radically redraw the present world order.
		Monbiot's solution to this behemoth of growing world inequality in wealth and power is not tinkering with the existing institutions but replacing them wholesale.
		Monbiot's reply is unequivocal: a fair trading system should be added to an ICU as a condition of refraining from a mass coordinated default.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,981396,00.html (1350 words)

	ABC Radio National - Background Briefing: 11 November 2001 - George Monbiot: Global Democracy
		George Monbiot: What we're effectively seeing is the displacement of democratic representative government with something approaching plutocracy, the rule by money and money in particular, brokered by those who've got an awful lot of it, plus quite a lot of political power, the corporations.
		George Monbiot: I want to broaden this out now, and talk about some of the parallel developments which have been going on world-wide.
		George Monbiot: Now the proposal I'm going to come up with may absolutely shock and horrify at least 50% of you, and many people have regarded it as an absolutely horrendous and repulsive suggestion.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/bbing/stories/s416171.htm (6102 words)

	The Voice of the Turtle
		Monbiot’s alternative is a ‘democratic’ one which, in his own argument, distinguishes itself from both the anarchist (and other libertarian) tendencies and the Marxist (and other transformatory socialist) ones.
		Monbiot makes friendly gestures in the direction of the US, or at least Americans, without reminding us that their current president was elected through a corporate-dependent and legally-dubious election, in which only fifty percent of the electorate (richer, whiter) took part.
		Monbiot avoids mention, far less confrontation, with the notion of ‘global civil society’, generally understood in his and my movement as space liberated from state and capital (and patriarchy, war, racism, pollution).
	www.voiceoftheturtle.org /show_article.php?aid=371 (2936 words)

	UNEP Global 500 Laureates - Award Winners
		George Monbiot is an investigative journalist who has been researching, naming and exposing the perpetrators of environmental destruction and abuses of indigenous peoples' rights.
		George Monbiot uncovered a tiger skin smuggling network operating between Indonesia and Singapore.
		More than once, George Monbiot was captured by gunmen and beaten up by security guards, left with facial injuries and broken bones.
	www.global500.org /ViewLaureate.asp?ID=131 (277 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Age of Consent: George Monbiot: Books
		Monbiot is interested in the global mechanisms that control war, peace, trade and development, and his manifesto explores the practical means by which the control of these mechanisms can be removed from the hands of the unelected rich and put into those of truly representative democratic bodies.
		George Monbiot has given me hope, there are alternatives to the problems facing the world - we just need to summon the will to implement them and to challenge those who say 'it...
		George Monbiot's 'Age of Consent' is a powerful and visionary call to arms from a seasoned campaigner of the Global Resistance Movement.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Age-Consent-George-Monbiot/dp/0007150431 (2185 words)

	Impish enemy of so many states - smh.com.au
		George Monbiot recounts with devilish enthusiasm some of the nasty emailed death threats he has received from disaffected readers of his books and newspaper articles.
		This week, Monbiot will be a headline speaker at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, where he is likely to discuss his dealings with Indonesia, a country that threatened to jail him for life over Poisoned Arrows and whose leaders, he claims, are shamelessly appeased by Australia, Britain and the US.
		Monbiot says he was heartened to see Australia take a security role in East Timor in 1999.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/07/04/1057179148197.html (1042 words)

	George Monbiot and the Black Block (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Monbiot differentiates between Hamoq and Hamas forms of protest, and lumps the "Black Block" into the former.
		It is a shame that Monbiot does not do this, particularly given the mounting evidence of a fake "Black Block" operating in Genoa on that day.
		I would have expected Monbiot, as a journalist, to have done this but, as the Genoa reporting has sadly shown, such objectively is the exception rather than the rule.
	anarchism.ws /writers/anarcho/monbiot_bb.html (696 words)

	Well done, Mr. Monbiot! \| Samizdata.net
		Having had the rare pleasure of meeting George Monbiot in the flesh, I was somewhat incredulous to read of his sudden insight that the only plausible way to end capitalism is with totalitarianism rather than caring sharing 'democracy':
		Monbiot should abandon his petty bourgeoisie sentimentality and immediately transport himself to Moscow to give CPR to Lenin's corpse.
		Monbiot has realised capitalism is not going to go away, which I suspect means he realises that it will have to be attacked from a different direction (hence my Nader analogue, who got to the same conclusion long before George Monbiot).
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/005058.html (2267 words)

	"You have to start working for change now"
		They say that four more years of George W. Bush represents a catastrophic threat, so opponents of war and injustice must hold their nose and vote for the "lesser evil," John Kerry--no matter how closely he positions himself to Bush.
		One is GEORGE MONBIOT, a leading figure in the global justice movement.
		Monbiot is a columnist for Britain’s left-leaning Guardian newspaper and author of numerous books, including The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order.
	www.socialistworker.org /2004-2/513/513_06_Monbiot.shtml (1869 words)

	How to Save the World
		But now a new article by George Monbiot suggests that perhaps the majority of corporations would act more compassionately and ethically if they could be assured their competitors would do the same.
		After listing the latest litany of evidence that global warming is for real and accelerating, Monbiot describes his astonishment at a conference where a number of companies called for tough new across-the-board regulations to start to deal with the problem, only to be rebuffed by governments unwilling to institute them.
		Monbiot's next book will include a detailed proposal to get government and industry, working together, to reduce greenhouse gases by 80% by 2030, which he believes is the minimum needed to prevent ecological meltdown.
	blogs.salon.com /0002007/2005/09/23.html (1075 words)

	Democracy Now! \| George Monbiot: "If We Don't Deal with Climate Change We Condemn Hundreds of Millions of People ...
		GEORGE MONBIOT: This is a great paradox and cruelty of climate change, that those countries which are most responsible for it, the rich nations, most of which are in temperate parts of the world, are those which are going to be hit last by it and hit least by it.
		GEORGE MONBIOT: In Ethiopia already, with just—what is it?—1.4 degrees Fahrenheit of global warming, the short rains have been failing year after year now for the past four or five years, and they have been failing because of rising sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean.
		GEORGE MONBIOT: Well, the first thing I’d say is, before we point the finger at China, just bear in mind that the average emissions of carbon dioxide per person in China are 2.7 tons per year; in the United States, they are twenty tons per year.
	www.democracynow.org /2007/5/18/george_monbiot_if_we_dont_deal (4478 words)

	Corporate Power - George Monbiot interview
		George Monbiot has been named by the Evening Standard as one of the 25 most influential people in Britain and by the Independent on Sunday as one of the 40 international prophets of the 21st century.
		Monbiot: I think you’re right and by effectively helping to engineer a consensus, the corporations create the impression that their power is acceptable in public life, that it’s not inordinate.
		Monbiot: I was recently speaking to an economist who claims that corporations are now receiving more in state handouts than they are providing in tax.
	ngin.tripod.com /249.htm (2015 words)

	Make the G8 History Blog: Monbiot to march against Live 8 and MPH
		Author and '68 veteran, Tariq Ali, said we should all be worried by a recent picture in the Financial Times showing a smiling Gordon Brown and Bob Geldof with "love in their eyes".
		His was an enjoyable tirade against how the celebrities have allowed New Labour and the G8 to co-opt the Make Poverty History campaign, and he paid tribute to Red Pepper's G8 special issue that exposed this co-optation to the full.
		Monbiot revealed that he was no longer wearing the campaign's white wristband and was instead joining Paul Kingsnorth's 'Make Richard Curtis History' campaign, which involves heading to Curtis's mansion, drowning him in his large swimming pool and then giving all his money to Mali.
	redpepper.blogs.com /g8/2005/06/monbiot_to_marc.html (392 words)

	Squander Two Blog
		But Monbiot's not even going near that debate: he doesn't think it's worth opposing hunting on grounds of animal cruelty.
		Even more than that: since he acknowledges that not all hunters are aristocrats, what he's really saying is that everyone, even the working classes, should be banned from practicing a hobby simply because it is historically associated with the aristocracy.
		By Monbiot's logic, we should also ban polo, show-jumping, croquet, fencing, contract bridge, and the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.
	www.squandertwo.net /blog/2004/09/monbiot-is-wrong.htm (629 words)

	WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: George Monbiot's Heat: How to Stop the ...
		Monbiot, like Lester Brown and others, recognizes that the pop-culture infatuation with sustainability and the masses of Prius drivers (bravo to them) are not going to change anything about the future of our planet.
		It is ironic that you accuse Monbiot of being shrill.
		Like Caldicott, Monbiot has much to offer, but like her he must continually re-think his positions and recognize and own up to his misjudgements if he wants to remain respected by the community he addresses, and especially by the people he wants to awaken.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/005014.html (5500 words)

	South End Press \| Heat
		George Monbiot is the best-selling author of The Age of Consent and Captive State, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed, and No Man’s Land.
		“George Monbiot is one of the real heroes of the fight against global warming; he has faced the reality of climate change much more squarely than most, and written a book that offers true hope precisely because it deals with the true facts, not a make-believe set that would be easier to work around.
		Margaret Atwood interviewed George Monbiot via Longpen, which was a challenge because the internet connection to Wales was a bit rough and she had to do a song and dance at the beginning until it got going and boy, with George on the line it got going.
	www.southendpress.org /2007/items/87798 (818 words)

	George Monbiot - SourceWatch
		George Monbiot is "Honorary Professor at the Department of Politics in Keele and Visiting Professor at the Department of Environmental Science at the University of East London.
		According to one unreferenced and perhaps unreliable account Monbiot's ancestors were the Ducs de Coutard, who fled the French Revolution and changed their family name from Beaumont to Monbiot during their flight.
		Monbiot's parents Raymond and Rosalie were leading members of the Conservative Party in Oxford.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=George_Monbiot (429 words)

	The Need for Dissent, by George Monbiot
		By George Monbiot, The Guardian, 18 September 2001
		But, unless we wish to help George Bush use barbarism to defend the "civilisation" he claims to represent, we on the left must distinguish between extradition and extermination.
		George Monbiot's book Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain is now published in paperback.
	www.themodernreligion.com /terror/wtc-dissent.html (1310 words)

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