George Monbiot
George Monbiot (born 1963) is a journalist, author and left-wing campaigner in the United Kingdom. He writes a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper. He has written four political books, (1) Manifesto for a New World Order, (2) Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain, (3) Europe Inc.: Regional and Global Restructuring and the Rise of Corporate Power and (4) The Age of Consent. He has also written three investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man's Land. In The Age of Consent, he argues for case of the Global Justice Movement which is his term for what is more frequently referred to as the "anti-globalization movement", as he argues that even that is global in nature.
While researching for his travel books in Indonesia, East Africa and Brazil he ran into problems - Monbiot was shipwrecked, shot at and stung into a coma by hornets. After being declared dead in a Hospital in Kenya he decided to come back to Britain and moved on to the politics of environmentalism and globalisation.
In 1995 he was awarded the Global 500 Award from UNEP for environmental achievement, which was presented to him by Nelson Mandela. He has also been named by the Evening Standard as one of the 25 most influential people in Britain, and by the Independent on Sunday as one of the 40 international prophets of the 21st Century. He has been a visiting professor of the Oxford Brookes University.
In 2004 he started working with George Galloway and the Socialist Alliance to form a left-wing alliance to contest the European Parliament elections (the RESPECT Unity Coalition), but resigned after they announced they would stand against already-elected Green Party MEPs. According to a press release from the Green Party dated 25 May 2004, he said to the voters, "I urge you to cast a positive vote for the future by voting Green".
Important quotes from Monbiot include " you can't phase out nuclear weapons without phasing out nuclear power", published in The Guardian newspaper on 21 September 2004. See
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