GEORGE MONBIOT on Reinhabiting an Ecological Commons /59
Today we speak with George Monbiot, who studied zoology at Oxford, and has spent his career as a journalist and environmentalist, working with others to defend the natural world. His celebrated Guardian columns are syndicated all over the world.
George is the author of the bestselling books Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life, The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order, and Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man's Land. His latest book is Out of the Wreckage: a New Politics for an Age of Crisis. Among the many prizes he has won is the UN Global 500 award for outstanding environmental achievement, presented to him by Nelson Mandela.
♫ Music featured in this episode includes "Blow, Gabriel" by The McIntosh County Shouters, "Spirit Intrusion Removal Song" by Kofan Shaman and "The Child Inside" by Ewan McLennan and George Monbiot.
For The Wild Podcast is an anthology of the Anthropocene; focused on land-based protection, co-liberation and intersectional storytelling rooted in a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth and consumerism.