George Joshua Richard Monbiot is a British writer known for his environmental and political activism.
32 Facts About George Monbiot
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George Monbiot writes a regular column for The Guardian and is the author of a number of books.
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George Monbiot then began a career in investigative journalism, publishing his first book Poisoned Arrows in 1989 about human rights issues in West Papua.
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George Monbiot is the founder of The Land is Ours, a campaign for the right of access to the countryside and its resources in the United Kingdom.
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George Monbiot was awarded the Global 500 in 1995 and the Orwell Prize in 2022.
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George Monbiot's father, Raymond Monbiot, is a businessman who headed the Conservative Party's trade and industry forum.
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George Monbiot's mother, Rosalie was a Conservative councillor and former leader of South Oxfordshire District Council.
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George Monbiot won an open scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford.
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George Monbiot has stated that his "political awakening" was prompted by reading Bettina Ehrlich's book, Paolo and Panetto, while at his prep school and that he regretted attending Oxford.
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George Monbiot transferred to the BBC's World Service, where he worked briefly as a current affairs producer and presenter, before leaving to research and write his first book.
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George Monbiot's activities led to his being made persona non grata in seven countries and being sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia in Indonesia.
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George Monbiot came back to work in Britain after being pronounced clinically dead in Lodwar General Hospital in north-western Kenya, having contracted cerebral malaria.
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George Monbiot joined the British roads protest movement and was often called to give press interviews; as a result he was denounced as a "media tart" by groups such as Green Anarchist and Class War.
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In 2014, George Monbiot wrote an article on the theme of loneliness.
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George Monbiot narrated the video How Wolves Change Rivers which was based on his TED talk of 2013 on the restoration of ecosystems and landscape when wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone Park.
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In 2019, George Monbiot co-presented Nature Now, a video about natural climate solutions, with Greta Thunberg.
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George Monbiot appeared in the 2021 Netflix documentary Seaspiracy, which focuses on the human impact on marine life and fishing, and defended it from critics.
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In 2021, George Monbiot created the live documentary Rivercide, highlighting the lamentable state of the UK's rivers, and in particular the River Wye.
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George Monbiot believes that drastic action coupled with strong political will is needed to combat global warming.
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George Monbiot has criticised media coverage of climate change and environmental issues, in particular that of the BBC and its nature documentaries.
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George Monbiot has criticised the BBC for what he views as its political bias.
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George Monbiot made an unsuccessful attempt to carry out a citizen's arrest of John Bolton, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, when the latter attended the Hay Festival to give a talk on international relations in May 2008.
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George Monbiot argued that Bolton was one of the instigators of the Iraq War, of which George Monbiot was an opponent.
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George Monbiot resigned from the group the following February when Respect failed to reach agreement with the Green Party not to stand candidates in the same constituencies in the forthcoming 2004 European Parliament election.
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George Monbiot, who has warned that Britain is at risk of becoming a failed state, is a supporter of Scottish independence, Welsh independence and Irish reunification.
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George Monbiot finally rejected his later neutral position regarding nuclear power in March 2011.
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In 2000, he published Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain in which George Monbiot argues that corporate power in the United Kingdom is a serious threat to democracy.
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George Monbiot has mostly lived in Oxford, but for a few years from 2007, he lived in a low emissions house in the market town of Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, originally with his then-wife, writer and campaigner Angharad Penrhyn Jones, and their daughter.
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The couple's daughter, George Monbiot's second, was born in early 2012.
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In December 2017, George Monbiot was diagnosed with prostate cancer; he had surgery in March 2018.
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George Monbiot won the Sir Peter Kent award 1991 prize for his book Amazon Watershed.
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In 2022, George Monbiot was awarded The Orwell Prize for Journalism.