What George Monbiot thinks about energy
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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6 dated positions, 2003 to 2012, in their own words. Our reading of what George Monbiot has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading · no longer heldWorld oil supply is close to its peak and will decline while demand keeps rising.
No longer holdsPeak oil hasn't happened, and it's unlikely to happen for a very long time.
SaidThe problem we face is not that there is too little oil, but that there is too much.
- 15 months earlier
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Our reading · no longer heldNuclear power is the wrong technology for cutting carbon: efficiency and renewables can do the job without it.
No longer holdsThe crisis at Fukushima has converted me to the cause of nuclear power.
SaidAtomic energy has just been subjected to one of the harshest of possible tests, and the impact on people and the planet has been small.
- 5 years earlier
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Their wordsSome of our arguments against nuclear power have collapsed, but it seems to me that the case is still robust.
- 7 months earlier
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Our reading · no longer heldThe chief danger of biofuels is that growing them for vehicles takes arable land away from food and causes hunger.
No longer holdsI am now prepared to admit that my previous column was wrong.
SaidI was wrong because I underestimated the fuel's destructive impact.
- 12 months earlier
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Their wordsIf the production of biofuels is big enough to affect climate change, it will be big enough to cause global starvation.
- 12 months earlier
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Their wordsThe supply of oil will decline, but global demand will not.