George Monbiot, English-Welsh author and activist

George Joshua Richard Monbiot ( MON-bee-oh; born 27 January 1963) is a British writer known for his environmental and political activism. He writes a weekly column for The Guardian, and is the author of a number of books, including Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain (2000), Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding (2013) and Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics in the Age of Crisis (2017).He is the founder of The Land is Ours, a campaign for the right of access to the countryside and its resources in the United Kingdom.