Regensis
3rd August 2022
Those familiar with George Monbiot’s journalism – to use the word in its loosest and most absurd sense – will know of his strange, almost pathological obsession with farmers. He writes endlessly about abolishing livestock farming and rewilding agricultural land, but shows little care or consideration as to what should happen to the families and communities for whom farming is not just a livelihood but a way of life. His new book Regenesis continues in this misanthropic vein.
One must admire the clever way in which Monbiot has critic-proofed this book: the first chapter is so piercingly dull that no one other than manic greenies will bother reading it. A whole 26 pages are dedicated to a lump of soil that Monbiot unearthed from his allotment.
George Monbiot is one of The Guardian’s favorite eco-cranks, the British version of Robert Reich.