This week we make room for the prolific journalist, writer, and activist and often criticized George Monbiot.
Monbiot believes that drastic action coupled with strong political will is needed to combat global warming, and asserts that climate change is the "moral question of the 21st century"
Monbiot’s most recent book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning, published in 2006, focuses on the issue of climate change. In this book, he argues that a 90% reduction in carbon emissions is necessary in developed countries in order to prevent disastrous changes to the climate. He then sets out to demonstrate how such a reduction could be achieved within the United Kingdom, without a significant fall in living standards, through changes in housing, power supply and transport. Monbiot concludes that such changes are possible but they would require considerable political will.
He is currently visiting professor of planning at Oxford Brookes University. In 1995 Nelson Mandela presented him with a United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement.
For a full archive of his articles, with references, pop along to monbiot.com with the provocative tagline “Tell people something they know already and they will thank you for it. Tell them something new and they will hate you for it.”
So well done George, keep up the good work.
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