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George Joshua Richard Monbiot (/ ˈ m ɒ n b i oʊ / MON-bee-oh; born 27 January 1963) is a British journalist, author, and environmental and political activist. He writes a regular column for The Guardian and has written several books. Monbiot grew up in Oxfordshire and studied zoology at the University of Oxford.
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The book is an investigation into the expulsion of peasants from their homes and their forced relocation to the Amazon.Military police attempt to kill Monbiot as he exposes a vast military project opening up the area to logging and deforestation.
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By Monbiot's own account, rewilding was a fringe interest at the time he published the book. [2] However, there had been attempts at rewilding in Britain such as "Wild Ennerdale" at Ennerdale, Cumbria , a project which Monbiot finds limited in scope.
Poisoned Arrows: An investigative journey through the forbidden lands of West Papua is a 1989 book by British writer and environmental and political activist George Monbiot. In the book, Monbiot discusses his travels to Western New Guinea amid the Papua conflict .
Monbiot expressed great concern at what he saw as a failure by Caldicott to provide adequate justification for any of her arguments. Regarding Caldicott's book Nuclear Power is Not The Answer , he wrote: "The scarcity of references to scientific papers and the abundance of unsourced claims it contains amaze me."
No Man's Land was praised by diverse sources, from Niall Ferguson in the Daily Mail, Oliver Tickell in the Daily Telegraph and in Africa Analysis, where it was described as 'An inquiring book by a sensitive man'. [1]