In 20 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental works
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their words have endured, becoming the classics that define the environmental movement today.
In these galvanising speeches and essays, George Monbiot calls on humanity to stop averting its gaze from the destruction of the living planet, and wake up to the greatest predicament we have ever faced.
George Monbiot is an author, Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner. His acclaimed books include: Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life; Heat: How We Can Stop the Planet Burning; and Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet. His latest book – The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life), written with US filmmaker Peter Hutchison – went straight to number 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller list.
George cowrote the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness with musician Ewan McLennan, and has made a number of viral videos. One of them, adapted from his 2013 TED talk, How Wolves Change Rivers, has been viewed on YouTube over 40 million times. Another, on Natural Climate Solutions, which he co-presented with Greta Thunberg, has been watched over 60 million times.