Brendan O’Neill Understands George Monbiot
BRENDAN O’Neill on Mad George Monbiot:
How is it that Monbiot, who still writes the same old apocalyptic nonsense (think Book of Revelations but without the hot pokers or sex), can now pose – more than that, be hailed – as a scientific visionary? His metamorphosis from green-tinted despiser of all things modern to man with a dazzling command of science reveals a great deal about the politics of environmentalism, and how it has added a gloss of ‘scientific fact’ to long-standing middle-class prejudices against mass modern society.
Indeed…
July 22nd, 2008 at 5:56 am
Clarence Mitchell probably introduced him to Al Gore at a garden party one afternoon!