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Politics, Nov 29th, 2011,
The UK is bracing itself for the largest public sector strike in over 30 years, prompted by the frozen and cut wages of state employees. The Conservatives sell these cuts as ‘necessary austerities’, but many aren’t buying that. And in light of a constant rise in income inequality and unfair EU subsides towards the wealthy, it’s not hard to see why. Case in point: George Monbiot writes in the Guardian on the outrageous Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies, which take up 43% of the European budget (totalling £47bn per year). And the more land you own, the more money you…
Tags: Dominic, elite, European, farm, George, Lawson, Monbiot, nurses, private sector, public sector, strike, subsidies, teachers, UK, workers
Climate Change, Green living, Sep 8th, 2010,
Environmental writer and Guardian columnist George Monbiot knows a lot more about environmental issues than I do. But his latest article, ‘I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat – but farm it properly’, seems too much of a flip-flop: from advocating one ‘extreme’ lifestyle to going a bit close to absolving meat eating’s environmental damage, because theoretically, the livestock industry could be a lot more sustainable. It is admirable for a public intellectual to admit he was wrong and Monbiot’s article makes good points, gleaned from Simon Fairlie’s book Meat: A Benign Extravagance. But the issue was never…
Tags: environmental, farm, George, industry, livestock, meat, Monbiot, vegan, veganism
Green living, Politics, Jun 25th, 2010,
UNCIVILISATION – aka the Dark Mountain Festival – took place over the last weekend in May at Llangollen, a small town in northwest Wales on the edge of the Berwyn Mountains. I’ve written a couple of times about the polemical Dark Mountain Project, a post-environmentalist movement that has given up on mainstream environmentalism, activism and politics – but not life, as I’ve been assured by DM founder Paul Kingsnorth – in favor of establishing a new movement and new way of life in the ‘age of decline’, which does not depend on current established economical/political/cultural models. I did not attend…
Tags: Dark Mountain, environmental, environmentalism, festival, George, Kingsnorth, Monbiot, movement, Paul, project, uncivilisation
Climate Change, Politics, May 12th, 2010,
A few days ago I wrote a bit about the Dark Mountain Project, a sort of post-environmentalist survivalist ideology with a lot of poetry thrown in. I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand DM seem appealingly realist and anti-system. Yet at the same time it’s a prematurely pessimistic ‘the worst case scenario has already arrived’ kind of philosophy. The thing is, for the overwhelming majority of environmentalists, greens, etc. the fight is far from over. George Monbiot – who will be attending Uncivilization: the Dark Mountain Festival at the end of the month – clearly hasn’t given…
Tags: Dark Mountain, dystopia, environmentalist, George, hexayurt, Monbiot, project
