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George Monbiot

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George Joshua Richard Monbiot (born 27 January 1963) is a British writer known for his environmental, political activism. [1]

153 relations: Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green, Amazon Watershed, Anarchism, Anti-nuclear movement, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Automotive battery, Balance of trade, Barrel (unit), BBC Natural History Unit, BBC World Service, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Bettina Ehrlich, Brasenose College, Oxford, Caroline Lucas, Celebrity, Cf., Chernobyl disaster, Chewbacca defense, Chinadialogue.net, Citizen's arrest, Class War, Climate change, Climate change denial, Conservative Party (UK), Consumer capitalism, Copenhagen, Costing the Earth, Crispin Tickell, Current affairs (news format), David Bellamy, Democracy Now!, Diageo, Diesel fuel, Economics of nuclear power plants, Ecovillage, European Parliament election, 2004 (United Kingdom), Ewan McLennan, ExxonMobil, Fair trade, Fellow, Feral (Monbiot book), Fire safety, Gavin Schmidt, Generation III reactor, Generation IV reactor, Global 500 Roll of Honour, Global governance, Global justice movement, Global warming, Green Anarchist, ..., Green Party of England and Wales, Green Templeton College, Oxford, Greenhouse gas, Grenfell Tower fire, Gresham Cooke, Hay Festival, Heaven and Earth (book), Helen Caldicott, Henley-on-Thames, Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, Hydrogen, Ian Plimer, Incandescent light bulb, Independent school (United Kingdom), Indigenous rights, Individual and political action on climate change, Integral fast reactor, International Clearing Union, International trade, Investigative journalism, Jeremy Corbyn, Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party leadership campaign, 2015, John F. Kennedy School of Government, John R. Bolton, Labour Party (UK), Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2015, Lateline, Leonardo Maugeri, Liberal Democrats (UK), Liquid fluoride thorium reactor, Lodwar, Low-carbon power, Low-energy house, Machynlleth, Malaria, Marxism, NASA, National Health Service, Natural history, Nelson Mandela, No Man's Land: An Investigative Journey Through Kenya and Tanzania, Nomad, Norwich City Council, Nuclear power, Oxford, Paddington, Passive house, Patronage, Penguin Books, People & Planet, Persona non grata, Peter Kent, Plaid Cymru, Planning permission, Poisoned Arrows: An investigative journey through the forbidden lands of West Papua, Prostate cancer, Radio Academy Awards, Radioactive waste, Renault Clio, Respect Party, Rewilding (conservation biology), Road protest in the United Kingdom, Rotherfield Peppard, Royal Society of Biology, Salma Yaqoob, Sheep farming, Sheep farming in Wales, Skye Bridge, South End Press, South Oxfordshire, Standard of living, Stop the War Coalition, Stowe School, Tanzania, TED (conference), The Age of Stupid, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Land is Ours, The New Press, The Spectator, The Sunday Times, The Times, Tony Jones (news journalist), Torture, Transmigration program, Transuranic waste, Trial in absentia, United Kingdom general election, 2015, United Kingdom general election, 2017, United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, United Nations Security Council, Uranium mining, Verso Books, Warden (college), West Papua (province), Wind farm, World Bank, Yanomami, 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Expand index (103 more) »

Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green

Robert Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green (14 May 1942 – 17 January 2014) was a British businessman, politician and author who was an advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

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Amazon Watershed

Amazon Watershed: the new environmental investigation is a 1991 book by British writer and environmental and political activist, George Monbiot.

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Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions.

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Anti-nuclear movement

The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Automotive battery

An automotive battery is a rechargeable battery that supplies electrical current to a motor vehicle.

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Balance of trade

The balance of trade, commercial balance, or net exports (sometimes symbolized as NX), is the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports over a certain period.

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Barrel (unit)

A barrel is one of several units of volume applied in various contexts; there are dry barrels, fluid barrels (such as the UK beer barrel and US beer barrel), oil barrels and so on.

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BBC Natural History Unit

The BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) is a department of the BBC which produces television, radio and online content with a natural history or wildlife theme.

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BBC World Service

The BBC World Service, the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasts radio and television news, speech and discussions in over 30 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, Internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, DAB, FM and MW relays.

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Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

The Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (also known as the Belfer Center) is a permanent research center located within the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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Bettina Ehrlich

Bettina Ehrlich, née Bauer, (10 March 1903 – 10 October 1985) was an Austrian painter and illustrator of children's books, many of which she also wrote.

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Brasenose College, Oxford

Brasenose College (BNC), officially The King's Hall and College of Brasenose, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Caroline Lucas

Caroline Patricia Lucas (born 9 December 1960) is a British politician, and since 2 September 2016, Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, with Jonathan Bartley.

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Celebrity

Celebrity refers to the fame and public attention accorded by the mass media to individuals or groups or, occasionally, animals, but is usually applied to the persons or groups of people (celebrity couples, families, etc.) themselves who receive such a status of fame and attention.

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Cf.

The abbreviation cf. (short for the confer/conferatur, both meaning "compare") is used in writing to refer the reader to other material to make a comparison with the topic being discussed.

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Chernobyl disaster

The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident.

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Chewbacca defense

A Chewbacca defense is a legal strategy in which the aim of the argument is to deliberately confuse the jury rather than to factually refute the case of the other side.

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Chinadialogue.net

Chinadialogue.net (中外对话) is an independent, non-profit organisation based in London and Beijing.

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Citizen's arrest

A citizen's arrest is an arrest made by a person who is not acting as a sworn law-enforcement official.

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Class War

Class War is an anarchist group and newspaper established by Ian Bone and others in 1983 in the United Kingdom.

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Climate change

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).

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Climate change denial

Climate change denial, or global warming denial, is part of the global warming controversy.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Consumer capitalism

Consumer capitalism is a theoretical economic and social political condition in which consumer demand is manipulated, in a deliberate and coordinated way, on a very large scale, through mass-marketing techniques, to the advantage of sellers.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København; Hafnia) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark.

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Costing the Earth

Costing the Earth is a programme on BBC Radio 4 about the environment.

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Crispin Tickell

Sir Crispin Tickell (born 25 August 1930) is a British diplomat, environmentalist, and academic.

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Current affairs (news format)

Current affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast.

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David Bellamy

David James Bellamy OBE (born 18 January 1933) is an English author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner and botanist.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González.

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Diageo

Diageo plc is a British multinational alcoholic beverages company, with its headquarters in London, England.

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Diesel fuel

Diesel fuel in general is any liquid fuel used in diesel engines, whose fuel ignition takes place, without any spark, as a result of compression of the inlet air mixture and then injection of fuel.

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Economics of nuclear power plants

New nuclear power plants typically have high capital costs for building the first several plants, after which costs tend to fall for each additional plant built as the supply chains develop and the regulatory processes improve.

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Ecovillage

Ecovillages are traditional or intentional communities whose goal is to become more socially, culturally, economically and ecologically sustainable.

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European Parliament election, 2004 (United Kingdom)

The European Parliament election, 2004 was the United Kingdom's part of the wider European Parliament election, 2004 which was held between 10 and 13 June 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union.

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Ewan McLennan

Ewan McLennan is a Scottish folk musician and singer-songwriter.

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ExxonMobil

Exxon Mobil Corporation, doing business as ExxonMobil, is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas.

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Fair trade

Fair trade is a social movement whose stated goal is to help producers in developing countries achieve better trading conditions.

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Fellow

A fellow is a member of a group (or fellowship) that work together in pursuing mutual knowledge or practice.

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Feral (Monbiot book)

Feral is a book about rewilding by the British environmentalist George Monbiot.

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Fire safety

Fire safety is the set of practices intended to reduce the destruction caused by fire.

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Gavin Schmidt

Gavin A. Schmidt is a climatologist, climate modeler and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, and co-founder of the award-winning climate science blog RealClimate.

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Generation III reactor

A Generation III reactor is a development of Generation II nuclear reactor designs incorporating evolutionary improvements in design developed during the lifetime of the Generation II reactor designs.

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Generation IV reactor

Generation IV reactors (Gen IV) are a set of nuclear reactor designs currently being researched for commercial applications by the Generation IV International Forum, with Technology readiness levels varying between the level requiring a demonstration, to economical competitive implementation.

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Global 500 Roll of Honour

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Global 500 Roll of Honour in 1987 to recognize the environmental achievements of individuals and organizations around the world.

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Global governance

Global governance or world governance is a movement towards political cooperation among transnational actors, aimed at negotiating responses to problems that affect more than one state or region.

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Global justice movement

The global justice movement is a network of globalized social movements opposing what is often known as the “corporate globalization” and promoting equal distribution of economic resources.

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Global warming

Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.

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Green Anarchist

The Green Anarchist, established in 1984 in the UK, was a magazine advocating green anarchism: an explicit fusion of libertarian socialist and ecological thinking.

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Green Party of England and Wales

The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW; Plaid Werdd Cymru a Lloegr) is a green, left-wing political party in England and Wales.

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Green Templeton College, Oxford

Green Templeton College (GTC) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Greenhouse gas

A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range.

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Grenfell Tower fire

The Grenfell Tower fire broke out on 14 June 2017 in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, United Kingdom.

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Gresham Cooke

Roger Gresham Cooke (26 January 1907 – 22 February 1970), usually known as Gresham Cooke, was a British Conservative Party (UK) politician.

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Hay Festival

The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts is an annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, for ten days from May to June.

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Heaven and Earth (book)

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming – The Missing Science is a popular science book published in 2009 and written by Australian geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and mining company director Ian Plimer.

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Helen Caldicott

Helen Mary Caldicott (born 7 August 1938) is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, and military action in general.

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Henley-on-Thames

Henley-on-Thames is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead and southeast of Oxford, near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.

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Hinkley Point C nuclear power station

Hinkley Point C nuclear power station (HPC) is a project to construct a 3,200 MWe nuclear power station with two EPR reactors in Somerset, England.

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a chemical element with symbol H and atomic number 1.

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Ian Plimer

Ian Rutherford Plimer (born 12 February 1946) is an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne, previously a professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide, and the director of multiple mineral exploration and mining companies.

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Incandescent light bulb

An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated to such a high temperature that it glows with visible light (incandescence).

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Independent school (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, independent schools (also private schools) are fee-paying private schools, governed by an elected board of governors and independent of many of the regulations and conditions that apply to state-funded schools.

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Indigenous rights

Indigenous rights are those rights that exist in recognition of the specific condition of the indigenous peoples.

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Individual and political action on climate change

Individual and political action on climate change can take many forms.

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Integral fast reactor

The integral fast reactor (IFR, originally advanced liquid-metal reactor) is a design for a nuclear reactor using fast neutrons and no neutron moderator (a "fast" reactor).

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International Clearing Union

The International Clearing Union (ICU) was one of the institutions proposed to be set up at the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in the United States, by British economist John Maynard Keynes.

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International trade

International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories.

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Investigative journalism

Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing.

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Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949).

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Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party leadership campaign, 2015

Jeremy Corbyn, the Member of Parliament for Islington North, stood as a candidate in the 2015 British Labour Party leadership election, in a successful campaign that made him the leader of the Labour Party.

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John F. Kennedy School of Government

The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (also known as Harvard Kennedy School and HKS) is a public policy and public administration school, of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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John R. Bolton

John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American attorney, political commentator, Republican consultant and activist, government official and former diplomat who serves as the 27th National Security Advisor of the United States.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2015

The 2015 Labour Party leadership election was won by Jeremy Corbyn with a landslide victory.

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Lateline

Lateline was an Australian television news program which ran from 1990 until 2017.

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Leonardo Maugeri

Leonardo Maugeri (10 April 1964 – 10 July 2017) was an Italian oil and gas expert, who was a top manager at Eni from 1994 to 2011.

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Liberal Democrats (UK)

The Liberal Democrats (often referred to as Lib Dems) are a liberal British political party, formed in 1988 as a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a splinter group from the Labour Party, which had formed the SDP–Liberal Alliance from 1981.

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Liquid fluoride thorium reactor

The liquid fluoride thorium reactor (acronym LFTR; often pronounced lifter) is a type of molten salt reactor.

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Lodwar

Lodwar is the largest town in north-western Kenya, located west of Lake Turkana on the A1 road.

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Low-carbon power

Low-carbon power comes from processes or technologies that produce power with substantially lower amounts of carbon dioxide emissions than is emitted from conventional fossil fuel power generation.

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Low-energy house

A low-energy house is any type of house that from design, technologies and building products uses less energy, from any source, than a traditional or average contemporary house.

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Machynlleth

Machynlleth, sometimes referred to colloquially as Mach, is a market town, community and electoral ward in Powys, Wales and within the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire (Sir Drefaldwyn).

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganisms) belonging to the Plasmodium type.

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Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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National Health Service

The National Health Service (NHS) is the name used for each of the public health services in the United Kingdom – the National Health Service in England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland – as well as a term to describe them collectively.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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No Man's Land: An Investigative Journey Through Kenya and Tanzania

No Man's Land: An Investigative Journey Through Kenya and Tanzania is a 1994 book by British writer and environmental and political activist, George Monbiot.

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Nomad

A nomad (νομάς, nomas, plural tribe) is a member of a community of people who live in different locations, moving from one place to another in search of grasslands for their animals.

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Norwich City Council

Norwich City Council is the city council for the city of Norwich in Norfolk, England.

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Nuclear power

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which most frequently is then used in steam turbines to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Paddington

Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in central London.

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Passive house

Passive house (Passivhaus) is a rigorous, voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building, which reduces the building's ecological footprint.

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Patronage

Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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People & Planet

People & Planet is a network of student campaign groups in the UK.

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Persona non grata

In diplomacy, a persona non grata (Latin: "person not appreciated", plural: personae non gratae) is a foreign person whose entering or remaining in a particular country is prohibited by that country's government.

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Peter Kent

Peter Kent, (born July 27, 1943) is a Conservative member of parliament for the riding of Thornhill, and the former Minister of the Environment in the 28th Canadian Ministry.

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Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru (officially Plaid Cymru – Party of Wales, often referred to simply as Plaid) is a social-democratic political party in Wales advocating for Welsh independence from the United Kingdom within the European Union.

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Planning permission

Planning permission or developmental approval refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation) in some jurisdictions.

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Poisoned Arrows: An investigative journey through the forbidden lands of West Papua

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.

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Prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is the development of cancer in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system.

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Radio Academy Awards

The Radio Academy Awards, started in 1983, were the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry.

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Radioactive waste

Radioactive waste is waste that contains radioactive material.

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Renault Clio

The Renault Clio is a supermini car (B-segment), produced by the French automobile manufacturer Renault.

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Respect Party

The Respect Party was a left-wing to far-left political party active in the United Kingdom between 2004 and 2016.

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Rewilding (conservation biology)

Rewilding is large-scale conservation aimed at restoring and protecting natural processes and core wilderness areas, providing connectivity between such areas, and protecting or reintroducing apex predators and keystone species.

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Road protest in the United Kingdom

Road protest in the United Kingdom usually occurs as a reaction to a stated intention by the empowered authorities to build a new road, or to modify an existing road.

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Rotherfield Peppard

Rotherfield Peppard (often referred to simply as Peppard by locals) is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire.

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Royal Society of Biology

The Royal Society of Biology (RSB), previously called the Society of Biology, is a learned society and professional association in the United Kingdom created to advance the interests of biology in academia, industry, education, and research.

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Salma Yaqoob

Salma Sultana Yaqoob (born 15 August 1971) is a British activist.

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Sheep farming

Sheep farming is the raising and breeding of domestic sheep.

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Sheep farming in Wales

Sheep farming is important to the economy of Wales.

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Skye Bridge

The Skye Bridge (Drochaid an Eilein Sgitheanaich) is a road bridge over Loch Alsh, Scotland, connecting the Isle of Skye to the island of Eilean Bàn.

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South End Press

South End Press was a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics.

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South Oxfordshire

South Oxfordshire is a local government district in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England.

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Standard of living

Standard of living refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material goods, and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class in a certain geographic area, usually a country.

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Stop the War Coalition

The Stop the War Coalition (StWC; informally Stop the War) is a British group which was established on 21 September 2001, shortly after the September 11 attacks, to campaign against what it believes are unjust wars.

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Stowe School

Stowe School is a selective independent school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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TED (conference)

TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a media organization that posts talks online for free distribution, under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".

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The Age of Stupid

The Age of Stupid is a 2009 British documentary film by Franny Armstrong, director of McLibel (1997) and Drowned Out (2002), and founder of 10:10, and first-time producer Lizzie Gillett.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Land is Ours

The Land is Ours is a British land rights campaign advocating access to the land, its resources, and the planning processes.

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The New Press

The New Press is an independent non-profit public-interest book publisher established in 1992 by André Schiffrin"", Publishers Weekly.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Tony Jones (news journalist)

Anthony William Jones (born 13 November 1955) better known as Tony Jones, is an Australian television news and political journalist, radio and television presenter.and writer.

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Torture

Torture (from the Latin tortus, "twisted") is the act of deliberately inflicting physical or psychological pain in order to fulfill some desire of the torturer or compel some action from the victim.

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Transmigration program

The transmigration program (Transmigrasi, from Dutch, transmigratie) was an initiative of the Dutch colonial government, and later continued by the Indonesian government to move landless people from densely populated areas of Indonesia to less populous areas of the country.

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Transuranic waste

Transuranic waste (TRU) is, as stated by U.S. regulations and independent of state or origin, waste which has been contaminated with alpha emitting transuranic radionuclides possessing half-lives greater than 20 years and in concentrations greater than 100 nCi/g (3.7 MBq/kg).

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Trial in absentia

Trial in absentia is a criminal proceeding in a court of law in which the person who is subject to it is not physically present at those proceedings.

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United Kingdom general election, 2015

The 2015 United Kingdom general election was held on 7 May 2015 to elect 650 members to the House of Commons.

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United Kingdom general election, 2017

The 2017 United Kingdom general election took place on Thursday 8 June, having been announced just under two months earlier by Prime Minister Theresa May on 18 April 2017 after it was discussed at cabinet.

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United Nations General Assembly

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée Générale AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), the only one in which all member nations have equal representation, and the main deliberative, policy-making and representative organ of the UN.

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United Nations Parliamentary Assembly

A United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) is a proposed addition to the United Nations System that would allow for greater participation and voice for Members of Parliament.

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United Nations Security Council

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, charged with the maintenance of international peace and security as well as accepting new members to the United Nations and approving any changes to its United Nations Charter.

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Uranium mining

Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground.

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Verso Books

Verso Books (formerly New Left Books) is a publishing house based in London and New York City, founded in 1970 by the staff of New Left Review.

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Warden (college)

Warden is the title given to or adopted by the heads of some university colleges and other institutions.

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West Papua (province)

West Papua (Papua Barat) is a province of Indonesia.

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Wind farm

A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity.

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World Bank

The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.

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Yanomami

The Yanomami, also spelled Yąnomamö or Yanomama, are a group of approximately 35,000 indigenous people who live in some 200–250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil.

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2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference

The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 7 and 18 December.

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2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

The was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monbiot

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