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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.

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?

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 ».

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

It’s obscene that the super-rich can criminalise protest, while they burn the world’s resources and remain untouched by the law, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Lorsque Rishi Sunak a accordé 27 nouvelles licences en mer du Nord cette semaine, il ne pensait pas à la survie du monde vivant. Le voyez-vous déjà ? L’horizon des systèmes terrestres – le point où nos systèmes planétaires basculent dans un nouvel équilibre, hostile à la plupart des formes de vie ? Je pense que oui. L’accélération soudaine des crises environnementales que nous avons connue cette année, associée à l’inutilité stratégique des puissants gouvernements, nous précipite vers le point de non-retour.

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When Rishi Sunak granted 27 new North Sea licences this week, he wasn’t thinking about the survival of the living world, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Climate breakdown and crop losses threaten our survival, but the ultra-rich find ever more creative ways to maintain the status quo, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Emmanuel Macron’s government is at least doing the bare minimum to avert the planetary crisis – and putting the UK to shame, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

As climate policy is weakened, extreme weather intensifies and more refugees are driven from their homes – and the cycle of hatred continues, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It’s not ‘the whole truth and nothing but the truth’ if campaigners cannot explain their motivations to a jury, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Fossil fuels, fisheries and farming: the world’s most destructive industries are protected – and subsidised – by governments

We know that the easiest way for a politician to secure power is to appease those who already possess it, those whose power transcends elections: the oil barons, the media barons, the corporations and financial markets. We know that this power appoints the worst possible people at the worst possible time. We know how, as elderly billionaires seek to grab ever more of the life that slips from them, they create a death cult....

The sediments preserved in these cliffs in Devon were laid down in the early Triassic period, just after the greatest mass extinction in the history of multicellular life that brought the Permian period to an end 252m years ago. Around 90% of species died, and fish and four-footed animals were more or less exterminated between 30 degrees north of the equator and 40 degrees south.

Les chaleurs excessives vont devenir la norme, même au Royaume-Uni. Les systèmes doivent changer de toute urgence – et le silence doit être brisé. Peut-on en parler maintenant ? Je veux dire le sujet que la plupart des médias et la majorité de la classe politique évitent depuis si longtemps. Vous savez, le seul sujet qui compte en définitive – la survie de la vie sur Terre. Tout le monde sait, même s’ils évitent soigneusement le sujet, qu’à côté de lui, tous les sujets qui remplissent les premières pages et obsèdent les experts sont des broutilles. Même les rédacteurs du Times qui publient encore des articles niant la science du climat le savent. Même les candidats à la direction du parti Tory, qui ignorent ou minimisent le problème, le savent. Jamais un silence n’a été aussi fort ou aussi assourdissant.

Can we talk about it now? I mean the subject most of the media and most of the political class has been avoiding for so long. You know, the only subject that ultimately counts – the survival of life on Earth. Everyone knows, however carefully they avoid the topic, that, beside it, all the topics filling the front pages and obsessing the pundits are dust. Even the Times editors still publishing columns denying climate science know it. Even the candidates for the Tory leadership, ignoring or downplaying the issue, know it. Never has a silence been so loud or so resonant.

The US supreme court is helping to destroy our climate. But it was a much smaller decision, closer to home, that was the final straw for me