Biography
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, lost for days in a rainforest, and (incorrectly) pronounced clinically dead in a hospital in northern Kenya.
Today, he is known for his environmental and corporate activism, and writes a weekly column for The Guardian, concentrating on political philosophy in relation to ecological and social problems. Among his body of work are "Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life"; "The Age of Consent"; and "Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning". His more recent books include the best-sellers "Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis", and "Regenesis".
He has made a number of videos. One of them, How Wolves Change Rivers, based on an extract from his latest (of several) TED Talks has been watched 40 million times on YouTube.