George Monbiot is the author of the best selling books Heat: how to stop the planet
burning; 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. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper.
During seven years of investigative journeys in Indonesia, Brazil and East Africa, he was shot at,
beaten up by military police, shipwrecked and stung into a poisoned coma by
hornets. He came back to work in Britain after being pronounced clinically dead in Lodwar General Hospital in north-western Kenya, having contracted cerebral malaria.
In Britain, he joined the roads protest movement. He was
hospitalised by security guards, who drove a metal spike through his foot,
smashing the middle bone. He helped to found The Land is Ours, which has
occupied land all over the country, including 13 acres of prime real estate in
Wandsworth belonging to the Guinness corporation and destined for a giant
superstore. The protesters beat Guinness in court, built an eco-village and
held onto the land for six months.
He has held visiting fellowships or professorships at
the universities of Oxford (environmental policy), Bristol (philosophy), Keele (politics), Oxford Brookes
(planning) and East London (environmental science). He has honorary doctorates
from the University of St Andrews and the University of Essex
and an Honorary Fellowship from Cardiff University.
In 1995 Nelson Mandela presented him with a United
Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement. He has also
won the Lloyds National Screenwriting Prize for his screenplay The Norwegian, a
Sony Award for radio production, the Sir Peter Kent Award and the OneWorld
National Press Award.
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