About the Author

George Monbiot has been named by The Evening Standard as one of the twenty-five most influential people in Britain and by The Independent on Sunday as one of the forty international prophets of the twenty-first century. He is the author of Captive State: The corporate Takeover of Britain, and the investigative travel books, Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man's Land. He writes a column for The Guardian and is Honorary Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Keele, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, University of East London.