Brendan Montague

The Ecologist

Brendan Montague is editor of The Ecologist, founder of Request Initiative and co-author of Impact of Market Forces on Addictive Substances and Behaviours: The web of influence of addictive industries (Oxford University Press). He tweets at @EcoMontague.

  • Lion King

    Disney's 'paltry' conservation support

    Brendan Montague
     | 17th July 2019
    Sir David Attenborough calls for conservation funding from firms that profit from animal imagery - but Lion King maker's support is paw.

  • Philosophy and science of change

    Brendan Montague
     | 3rd July 2019
    Philosophical tools have an urgent practical application as we develop a theory of change appropriate to the scale of climate crisis.

  • Sack Minister for 'assaulting' protester

    Brendan Montague
    Helen William
    Jennifer McKiernan
     | 21st June 2019
    Mark Field, Foreign Office Minister, is under investigation after 'horrific' moment when he physically grabs climate protester is filmed by Greenpeace.

  • May day for climate breakdown

    Brendan Montague
     | 12th June 2019
    Gore. Blair. Obama. Miliband. And now May. Why is spouting hot air about climate change the last refuge of failed, compromised politicians?

  • Trump clueless on climate breakdown

    Brendan Montague
    Press Association
     | 6th June 2019
    Donald Trump, president of the United States, demonstrates a complete absence of any understanding of climate change.
  • Cows

    Envirocidal

    Brendan Montague
     | 5th June 2019
    The best solution to the compound crises of climate, biodiversity and soil depletion is to simply stop eating animals.
  • Monsanto's Roundup flagons on sale - relabelled by activists from Global Justice Now, 28th April 2016. The main active ingredient is glyphosate. Photo: Global Justice Now via Flickr (CC BY).

    RoundUp - understanding the risks

    Brendan Montague
     | 3rd June 2019
    Monsanto currently faces more than 13,000 consumer lawsuits due to the dangerous health effects of its weed killer Roundup.
  • The Shard, London

    London’s circular economy week

    Brendan Montague
     | 3rd June 2019
    Organisations called on to drive sustainable business practices during London’s Circular Economy Week.

  • Arrests spiral at XR occupations

    Brendan Montague
     | 16th April 2019
    Extinction Rebellion demands government action on climate breakdown while filling London's police cells.
  • Hands cupping plants

    Needing change, changing needs

    Brendan Montague
     | 3rd April 2019
    How might a post-capitalist society evolve to meet the needs of humans and the natural world?

  • Why we need more - and not less

    Brendan Montague
     | 4th March 2019
    Environmental campaigning has centred on telling people they cannot have what they want - but should instead enhance and elevate human needs.

  • A human system of needs

    Brendan Montague
     | 22nd February 2019
    Humans as systems have complex systems of needs. Can capitalism as a system meet these needs, while also meeting its own systemic needs?
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