George Monbiot

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George Monbiot : biography

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Feral

Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding was published in 2013, and focuses on the concept of rewilding the planet. Monbiot states "rewilding offers a positive environmentalism. Environmentalists have long known what they are against; now we can explain what we are for."

In the book, Monbiot attacks sheep farming as "a slow-burning ecological disaster, which has done more damage to the living systems of this country than either climate change or industrial pollution. Yet scarcely anyone seems to have noticed."

The book received favourable reviews, including in publications normally hostile to his work, including The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph.

Bibliography

  • Poisoned Arrows: An Investigative Journey Through Indonesia (1989, Abacus) ISBN 0-7181-3153-3
  • Amazon Watershed (1991, Abacus) ISBN 0-7181-3428-1
  • Mahogany Is Murder: Mahogany Extraction from Indian Reserves in Brazil (1992) ISBN 1-85750-160-8
  • No Man’s Land: An Investigative Journey Through Kenya and Tanzania (1994, Picador) ISBN 0-333-60163-7
  • Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain (2000, Macmillan) ISBN 0-333-90164-9
  • Anti-capitalism: A Guide to the Movement (2001, Bookmarks) ISBN 1-898876-78-9 contributor
  • Europe Inc.: Regional and Global Restructuring and the Rise of Corporate Power (2003, Pluto Press) foreword by George Monbiot, ISBN 0-7453-2163-1
  • The Age of Consent (2003, Flamingo) ISBN 0-00-715042-3
  • Manifesto for a New World Order (2004, The New Press) ISBN 1-56584-908-6
  • Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning (September 2006, Allen Lane) ISBN 0-7139-9923-3 U.S. edition (April 2007,South End Press) ISBN 978-0-89608-779-8
  • Bring on the Apocalypse: Six Arguments for Global Justice (March 2008, Atlantic Books) ISBN 978-1-84354-656-6

Honours

He has honorary doctorates from the University of St Andrews and the University of Essex, and an honorary fellowship from Cardiff University. George Monbiot’s biography on Monbiot.com Accessed 10 November 2006.

In 1995, Nelson Mandela presented him with a United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement. Accessed 10 November 2006. He was a finalist in the Lloyds National Screenwriting Prize with his screenplay The Norwegian, a Sony Award for radio production, the Sir Peter Kent Award and the OneWorld National Press Award. George Monbiot’s biography on Monbiot.com Accessed 10 November 2006 In November 2007 his book Heat was awarded the Premio Mazotti, an Italian book prize. But he was denied the money given with the prize because he refused to travel to Venice to collect it in person, arguing that it was not a good enough reason to justify flying.

Early life

George Monbiot was born in Kensington, London. He grew up in Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire, England, in a house next to Peppard Common.Andy Beckett. . Independent. 12 May 1996 Politics was at the heart of family life—his father, Raymond Geoffrey Monbiot, is a businessman who headed the Conservative Party’s trade and industry forum,Fox, Genevieve. . The Independent. 9 May 1995. while his mother, Rosalie—the elder daughter of Conservative MP Roger Gresham CookeMarriages, p. 10, The Times, 9 December 1961—was a Conservative councillor who led South Oxford district council for a decade.The Daily Telegraph, 25 May 1996 His uncle, Canon Hereward Cooke, was the Liberal Democrat deputy leader of Norwich City Council between 2002 and 2006.Times Online.. Times Online. 7 January 2010. Monbiot was educated at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, an independent school, and won an Open Scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford.

Career

After graduating in Zoology, he joined the BBC Natural History Unit as a radio producer, making natural history and environmental programmes. He 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.