George Monbiot
Journalist, author and environmental activist
George Monbiot is an English journalist and author with a regular column in The Guardian. In Feral he endorses rewilding.
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British Born 1963 in Kensington, United Kingdom
About George Monbiot
George Monbiot was born in 1963 and grew up in Oxfordshire. He studied zoology at the University of Oxford, then began a career in investigative journalism. His first book, Poisoned Arrows (1989), looked at human rights issues in West Papua. Several books carry his name, among them Captive State and The Age of Consent, and he contributes to The Guardian on a regular basis. In Feral (2013), he discussed rewilding and argued for its expansion. Monbiot has been involved in activism on climate change, British politics and loneliness. He started The Land is Ours, a UK campaign for people's right of access to the countryside and its resources. His honors include the Global 500 (1995) and, in 2022, the Orwell Prize.