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I know it’s almost impossible to turn your eyes away from the Trump show, but that’s the point. His antics, ever-grosser and more preposterous, are designed to keep him in our minds, to crowd out other issues. His insatiable craving for attention is a global-threat multiplier. You can’t help wondering whether there’s anything he wouldn’t do to dominate the headlines.

Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

Those who destroy the living world should be charged with the international crime of ecocide

In thinking about the war being waged against life on Earth by Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their minions, I keep bumping into a horrible suspicion. Could it be that this is not just about delivering the world to oligarchs and corporations – not just about wringing as much profit from living systems as they can? Could it be that they want to see the destruction of the habitable planet?

The faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.

Le néolibéralisme a réussi à faire croire que les choix politiques n’avaient pas d’importance face aux décisions économiques. Il faut donc s’en débarrasser en se rappelant qu’il est loin d’être une « loi naturelle » indépassable, affirme, dans un entretien au « Monde », le co-auteur de « La Doctrine invisible. L’histoire secrète du néolibéralisme ».

We must tackle the environmental nightmare of 4x4s by taxing them off the road, says George Monbiot.

Marcus Decker dared to protest the climate crisis and was punished. Now he could be deported, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

In the UK and around the world, those who challenge rich corporations are being hounded and crushed with ever-more inventive penalties, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Janine Abbring spreekt zoöloog en klimaatactivist George Monbiot (1963) over het gevoel van nietigheid en vrijheid wanneer hij in zijn zeekajak vaart, hoe een krachtig verhaal zelfs onze diepst gevoelde waarden omver kan werpen, en hoe we straks de mensheid kunnen voeden zonder uiteindelijk de planeet zélf op te eten. Monbiot laat een fragment zien uit de Britse cultserie Survivors, over overlevenden na een pandemie veroorzaakt door een virusuitbraak in een lab in China. Verder beelden van de Amerikaanse rapper Eminem en van bultrugwalvissen in de baai van Monterey in Californië.