Go read George Monbiot
May 13th, 2008Remember how I said people should read much more than they write? Well, I am doing just that at the moment. That and write post upon post for my gardening blog. This leaves me no huge motivation to post here, all the more so that I am under the impression I would be boring people with the same themes all over again.
For those dear readers who would protest they would not be bored, I offer two solutions:
- I will be recycling old posts - I know I like to read them again. Maybe you will.
- I strongly recommend you to read George Monbiot’s articles. He writes the things I would like to write. Only he does it much better. And he knows what he is writing about.
[…] why are we still prospecting for fossil fuels when we already have more than we can safely [global warming] burn? The reason is that governments are pursuing two completely different policies. One is to encourage the production of fossil fuels; the other is to discourage their consumption. Until this conflict has resolved our carbon cutting programs will fail. No company extracts fossil fuels as a hobby. Once removed from the ground, they will be burnt whatever demand side policies say. May I propose a new kind of carbon capture and storage, which is geologically stable and guaranteed to work? Leave the damn stuff in the ground.
George Monbiot, as podium speaker in the Nature podcast
Your gardening blog made me dream… I have but 3 window-boxes… and I’m no good with keeping them green and well (either too much or too little water!) Speaking of gardens, I guess you must have been following the French parliament debates on GMO and the surprising outcome! I wish the law could be as strict as in Germany where no GMO = 0 and not 1%… I always suspected our government is no good at maths!
I have been following the GMO debates. I must say I admire Ms Kosciusko-Morizet. Her position must be extremely uncomfortable. I’d have resigned ten times (well, maybe I would not have volunteered in the first place).
Thank you for the intro. to Monbiot. Great stuff for the ecojustice blog.
I had not made that connection, but indeed, Monbiot not only writes about environmental issues, but also about social justice. Sometimes I figure him as a modern Don Quixote, fighting giants when all we see is windmills.
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