About George
Bio
As a young man, George Monbiot spent six years working as an investigative journalist in West Papua, Brazil and East Africa, during which time he was shot at, shipwrecked, beaten up, stung into a poisoned coma by hornets, became lost for days in a rainforest, where he ate rats and insects to avert starvation and was (incorrectly) pronounced clinically dead in a hospital in northern Kenya.
Today, he leads a less adventurous life as an author, columnist for the Guardian newspaper and environmental campaigner. Among his books and projects are Feral: rewilding the land, sea and human life; The Age of Consent; Heat: how to stop the planet burning and the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness. His latest book is Out of the Wreckage: a new politics for an age of crisis. He has made a number of viral videos. One of them, How Wolves Change Rivers, has been watched 30m times on YouTube.
I'm passionate about
Rebuilding human communities
Rebuilding ecosystems
An idea worth spreading
Rewilding: the mass restoration of ecosystems
Things you might not know
Cooking Thai curries