George Monbiot
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George Joshua Monbiot (MON-bee-oh, born 27 January 1963) is a British writer best known for his environmental and political activism.
He writes a weekly column for The Guardian and is the author of a number of books, including Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain (2000) and Out of the Woods: A New Politics in the Age of Crisis (2017).
He is the creator of The Land is Ours, a movement for the right to explore the countryside and its resources in the United Kingdom.
Early life
Monbiot was born in Kensington, Oxfordshire, and he grew up in Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire. Raymond Monbiot, his father, is a businessman who chaired the Conservative Party's trade and industry forum. Rosalie, his mother and former chief of South Oxfordshire District Council, was a conservative councillor and former chairman of Gresham Cooke MP. Canon Hereward Cooke, his uncle, was the Liberal Democrat deputy leader of Norwich City Council.
He was educated at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, following a preparatory boarding school. He was a winner of an open scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford. Monbiot has said that reading Bettina Ehrlich's book Paolo and Panetto as a boy at his prep school sparked his "political awakening" and that he regretted attending Oxford.
Personal life
Monbiot has lived in Oxford for the most part, but he spent a few years in Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, beginning with his then-wife, writer, and activist Angharad Penrhyn Jones and their daughter. Monbiot returned in 2012 because his new partner lives in Oxford. Monbiot's second child, the couple's daughter, was born in early 2012. Monbiot was diagnosed with prostate cancer in December 2017 and underwent surgery in March 2018.
Career
Monbiot joined BBC Natural History Unit as a radio producer, producing natural history and environmental studies after graduating with a degree in zoology. He joined the BBC World Service, where he briefly worked as a current affairs producer and host, before deciding to investigate and write his first book.
He travelled in Indonesia, Brazil, and East Africa as an investigative journalist. His work culminated in his being named a non grata in seven countries and being sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia, Indonesia. He was also shot and killed by military forces, shipwrecked, and stung into a poisoned coma by hornets in these areas. After being declared clinically dead in Lodwar General Hospital in north-western Kenya, suffering from cerebral malaria, he returned to work in the United Kingdom.
He joined the British roads protest movement and was regularly called on to give press interviews; as a result, he was described as a "media tart" by organizations such as Green Anarchist and Class War. Security guards allegedly drove a metal spike through his foot, fracturing the middle metatarsal bone. His injuries kept him in the hospital. Sir Crispin Tickell, a former United Nations diplomat who was then Warden at Green College, Oxford, named the young activist a Visiting Fellow.
In a tweet in November 2012, he apologised to Lord McAlpine for his "stupidity and thoughtlessness" in implying that the Conservative peer was a paedophile.
Monbiot wrote an essay about loneliness in 2014. Ewan McLennan, a composer, was involved in a joint venture. In October 2016, they released an album called Breaking the Spell of Loneliness, as well as a tour of the United Kingdom. "Each song is a short, eloquent, and thought provoking essay on the demise of our humanity and how it can be revived," Folk Radio described it as "an enthralling album."
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone Park, Monbiot narrated the film How Wolves Change Rivers, which was based on his TED talk on the restoration of ecosystems and landscape (rewilding). In 2019, Monbiot co-presented Nature Now, a film about natural climate solutions, with Greta Thunberg. He appeared in the Netflix documentary Seaspiracy, which focuses on the human impact on marine life and fishing, and he has received acclaim from critics.
Monbiot outlined how difficult it is to campaign for Earth's survival in the face of what he sees as overwhelming inaction in early 2022.