George Monbiot (London, b. 1963) is an author, Guardian columnist, and environmental campaigner. His best-selling books include Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning (2006) and Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life (2013). His latest book is Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet (2022). In 1995, Nelson Mandela presented him with a UN Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement. In 2022, Monbiot was awarded The Orwell Prize for Journalism. Monbiot cowrote the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness (2016) with the musician Ewan McLennan, and has made a number of viral videos. One of them, How Wolves Change Rivers, adapted from his 2013 TED Talk, has been viewed on YouTube more than forty million times; another one on natural climate solutions (#naturenow, 2019), in which he co-stars with Greta Thunberg, has been watched more than sixty million times. 31
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