The price of deregulation - when will Wasteminster ever learn that fixing the problem is always more expensive than stopping it happening in the first place? See flooding….
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/01/organised-waste-crime-dump-uk-environment
George #Monbiot on how organised waste crime is a huge UK growth industry.
But Monbiot omits how the legal framework drives the crisis. High taxes on regulated landfill create a massive financial incentive to dump illegally, which can be countered only by strict enforcement. But enforcement is negligible.
The result is that curent framework is significantly worse than total deregulation. Landfill taxes are a great principle, but only if enforced.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/01/organised-waste-crime-dump-uk-environment
#Monbiot on the imminent danger of a collapse of the global food system:
#Policy "across most of the world appears to consist of allowing “the market” (namely a few huge global corporations) to decide what happens next. There’s another way of putting it. Our governments are leaving a group of ruthless speculators to play dice with our lives"
#food #USIsrael #Iran #consolidation
#collapse #foodsecurity #plantbased
@EUCommission
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/big-corporations-global-food-system-war-iran
A good summary by #Monbiot - wanting to have our cake and eat it, the age old story.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/19/iran-greed-oil-capitalism-regimes
#Renewables #War #NetZero #EnergyIndependence #Iran #Israel #USA #Greed #ShortSight
A pertinent comment in these days of rising energy costs. And the costs of mitigation is just going to rise the longer we delay.
A good article by Monbiot.
So we have Mahmoud (and treat of the motley crew), Farage and the Tabloids on one side….
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/05/shabana-mahmood-immigrants-britain-history
“Of course, it shouldn’t have been left to advertisers. Then and now, it’s the government that needs to confront the lies in the media. Instead, it endorses them and grovels to the oligarchs.”
Fat chance
#Monbiot #Labour #Mahmoud #Farage #Prejudice #Racism #UKPol #HurrahTheBlackShirts
Don’t panic the Horses
The UK government didn’t want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I’m not surprised.
It might make you ask them hard questions about their support and subsidy for fossil fuel companies and chemical manufacturers.
One might almost think they expect to be dead before the rest of us seek to blame them.
#environment #climateChange ##maladminisration #UkPol #Monbiot
How small do you have to be in the trouser department to need to subject an animal to prolonged torture to 'prove' your masculinity?
Bluefin tuna are miraculously returning to UK shores – only to be tormented for ‘sport’:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/28/bluefin-tuna-fishing-contest-environment
#News #Newstodon #NewsTooter #Monbiot #GeorgeMonbiot #Tuna #BluefinTuna #BluefinTunaUK #AnimalRights #UK
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