George Monbiot
Journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist in the United Kingdom who writes a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper.
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People don't riot for austerity; they riot because they want more, not less. We have to riot for less.
Here then is a message to all those editors, reviewers, executives and ministers whom I have not yet offended. Kindly boil your heads.
Tell people something they know already and they will thank you for it. Tell them something new and they will hate you for it.
Nobody ever rioted for austerity.
Your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.
No political challenge can be met by shopping.
Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.
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