George Monbiot
Guardian columnist and environmental writer. He republishes every column at monbiot.com with its original date, which makes him one of the few public writers whose reversals can be read against the pieces they reverse.
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Their words thenI no longer believe that the only ethical response is to stop eating meat.
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Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsPart of the problem is that while livestock could be fed on waste and rangelands, ever less of the meat we eat in the rich nations is produced this way.
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Their words thenBut if we were to adopt it, we could eat meat, milk and eggs (albeit much less) with a clean conscience.
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Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsWhile researching my book Feral, I also came to see extensive livestock rearing as a lot less benign than I – or Simon Fairlie – had assumed.
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Their words thenThe supply of oil will decline, but global demand will not.
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Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsThe problem we face is not that there is too little oil, but that there is too much.
- 15 months earlier
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Their words thenSome of our arguments against nuclear power have collapsed, but it seems to me that the case is still robust.
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Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsAtomic energy has just been subjected to one of the harshest of possible tests, and the impact on people and the planet has been small.
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Their words thenIf the production of biofuels is big enough to affect climate change, it will be big enough to cause global starvation.
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Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsI was wrong because I underestimated the fuel's destructive impact.
- 2 years earlier
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Their words, looking backThe only thing worse than a world with the wrong international trade rules is a world with no trade rules at all.
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Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsMy conversion came on the day I heard a speaker demand a cessation of most forms of international trade and then, in answering a question from the audience, condemn the economic sanctions on Iraq.