Environmentalism, like almost everything else, is in danger of being swallowed by the corporate leviathan … No one threatens its survival as much as the greens who have taken the company shilling. (George Monbiot on former Greenpeace director Lord Melchett’s new job at PR firm Burson Marsteller, whose core business is defending companies who harm the environment from pressure groups like Greenpeace, Guardian 15.01.02)
Fuel and all that business
"As an oil sheikh once remarked,
the stone age did not come to an end through a shortage of stone. Why
should we wait for the oil to run out before abandoning the fossil
age?" (George Monbiot, environmental campaigner the Guardian)
(Added November 2000)
The great battle of the 21st
century
"The struggle between people and corporations will be the
defining battle of the twenty-first century. If the corporations win,
liberal democracy will come to an end. The social democratic
institutions which have defended the weak against the strong -
equality before the law, representative government, democratic
accountability and the sovereignty of parliament - will be
toppled"
George Monboit from his new book Captive State: the
corporate take over of Britain.