George Monbiot is a famous Non-Fiction Author, born on January 27, 1963 in United Kingdom. As of January 9, 2023, George Monbiot’s net worth is $5 Million. He is the founder of The Land is Ours, a land rights campaign advocating access to the land.
| Parents | Raymond Geoffrey Monbiot, Rosalie Monbiot |
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| Mother | Not Available |
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| Spouse | Angharad Penrhyn Jones |
| Children(s) | 2 |
Biography
Writer and environmental activist who is known for books like “Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain” and “Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding”. George Joshua Richard Monbiot (/ˈ m ɒ n b i oʊ / 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..
His parents are Rosalie and Sir Raymond Geoffrey Monbiot. He was married to Angharad Penrhyn Jones until 2008. He has two children.
Monbiot was educated at a preparatory boarding school between 1971 and 1976. He did not enjoy his time there, later believing that boarding school destroys one’s imagination. He was then educated at Stowe School, a public school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire. He won an open scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford. He stated that his “political awakening” was prompted by reading Bettina Ehrlich’s book, Paolo and Panetto, while at his prep school, and that he regretted attending Oxford, stating that his time there was unhappy and he did not fit in with Brasenose’s culture.
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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George Monbiot Net Worth
George Monbiot is one of the richest Non-Fiction Author & listed on most popular Non-Fiction Author. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, George Monbiot's net worth $5 Million.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Non-Fiction Author |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
He studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in zoology.
Monbiot’s first book was Poisoned Arrows (1989), which is about what he called the “devastating effects” of the partially World Bank-funded transmigration program on the peoples and tribes of West Papua, a nation annexed by Indonesia. It was followed by Amazon Watershed (1991), which documented expulsions of Brazilian peasant farmers from their land and followed them thousands of miles across the forest to the territory of the Yanomami Indians, and showed how timber sold in Britain was being stolen from indigenous and biological reserves in Brazil. His third book, No Man’s Land: An Investigative Journey Through Kenya and Tanzania (1994), documented the seizure of land and cattle from nomadic people in Kenya and the Tanzania, by—among other forces—game parks and safari tourism.
In 1995, Nelson Mandela presented him with a United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement. He was a finalist in the Lloyds National Screenwriting Prize with his screenplay The Norwegian, and won a Sony Award for radio production, the Sir Peter Kent Award and the OneWorld National Press Award. In November 2007, his book Heat was awarded the Premio Mazotti, an Italian book prize, but he was denied the money given with the prize because he chose not to travel to Venice to collect it in person, arguing that it was not a good enough reason to justify flying. In 2017, he was a recipient of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award for his work at The Guardian.
In 2000, he published Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain. The book examines the role of corporate power in the United Kingdom, on both local and national levels, and argues that corporate involvement in politics is a serious threat to democracy. Subjects discussed in the book include the building of the Skye Bridge, corporate involvement in the National Health Service, the role of business in university research, and the conditions which influence the granting of planning permission.
George Monbiot Wife
According to our records, George Monbiot married to Angharad Penrhyn Jones. As of January 12, 2023, George Monbiot’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for George Monbiot. You may help us to build the dating records for George Monbiot!Monbiot’s next book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning, published in 2006, focused on the issue of climate change.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
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Facts & Trivia
Ranked on the list of most popular Non-Fiction Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in United Kingdom. George Monbiot celebrates birthday on January 27 of every year.
In January 2004, Monbiot and Salma Yaqoob co-founded the Respect – The Unity Coalition (later formally the Respect Party) which grew out of the Stop the War Coalition. He resigned from the group the following February when Respect failed to reach agreement with the Green Party not to stand candidates in the same constituencies in the forthcoming 2004 European Parliamentary election.
What did George Monbiot do?
He joined the British roads protest movement and was often called to give press interviews; as a result he was denounced as a “media tart” by groups such as Green Anarchist and Class War. He was attacked by security guards, who allegedly drove a metal spike through his foot, smashing the middle metatarsal bone.
What nationality is George Monbiot?
English
Is George Monbiot a vegetarian?
In 2016, Monbiot announced that he’d converted to veganism in order to reduce his impact on the environment but also observed some health benefits of doing so. Monbiot, G. 2016. ‘I’ve converted to veganism to reduce my impact on the living world.
How old is George Monbiot?
59 years (January 27, 1963)
Is George Monbiot pro nuclear?
Yes, we are pro-nuclear, but the proposed Hinkley C plant should be scrapped.
Monbiot has lived in Oxford for many years, but for a few years from 2007, lived in a low emissions house in the mid-Wales market town of Machynlleth, originally with his then-wife, writer and campaigner Angharad Penrhyn Jones, and their daughter. Because his new partner lives in Oxford, Monbiot returned by 2012. The couple’s daughter, Monbiot’s second, was born in early 2012. In December 2017, Monbiot was diagnosed with prostate cancer; he had surgery in March 2018.
Monbiot made an unsuccessful attempt to carry out a citizen’s arrest of John Bolton, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, when the latter attended the Hay Festival to give a talk on international relations in May 2008. Monbiot argued that Bolton was one of the instigators of the Iraq War, of which Monbiot was an opponent.
In an interview with the British political blog Third Estate in September 2009, Monbiot expressed his support for the policies of Plaid Cymru, saying “I have finally found the party that I feel very comfortable with. That’s not to say I feel uncomfortable with the Green Party, on the whole I support it, but I feel even more comfortable with Plaid.”
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