George Monbiot Quotes

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We are the most fortunate generation that has ever lived. And we are the most fortunate generation that ever will.

George Monbiot
Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.

George Monbiot
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire

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The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights, filling the kettle, taking the children to school, driving to the shops, we are condemning other people to death. We never chose to do this. We do not see ourselves as killers. We perform these acts without passion or intent.

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It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

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Driving is one reason for growth of libertarianism. When you drive, society becomes an obstacle.

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Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.

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We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.

George Monbiot
On the Extinction Rebellion movement:
This is a movement devoted to disruptive, nonviolent disobedience in protest against ecological collapse.

George Monbiot