WRITER

George Monbiot

1963 - Today

George Monbiot

George Joshua Richard Monbiot ( 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Monbiot has received more than 1,445,244 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). George Monbiot is the 6,871st most popular writer (down from 6,297th in 2019), the 6,435th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,173rd in 2019) and the 719th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

1.4M
Page Views (PV)
37.15
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
19
Languages Editions (L)
1.94
Effective Languages (L*)
3.63
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Feral

Restoration ecology, Environmental protection, Applied ecology

2013

No Man's Land

Turkana (African people), Description and travel, Travel

1994

Regenesis

2022

Poisoned Arrows

Description and travel, Ethnology, Cultuur

1989

The Age of Consent

World politics, Nonfiction, Politics

Having made a hugely significant contribution to the increasingly irrefutable, if alarming, diagnosis of the ills of early 21st century consumerist culture and its free-market myths, George Monbiot sets out now with this new book to offer something more constructive, a set of proposals – political, democratic, economic, environmental – that might effect the cultural change that many in the West (not to mention those on the outside of the West looking in) now want but scarcely know how to make happen.'The Age of Consent' is provocative, brave, even utopian. But, with most of the 20th century's Big Ideas dead in the gutter, it's time for a book that can be a touchstone for real debate about the political and economic presumptions and prejudices on which our society has rested since World War II.

2003

Heat

Popular works, Global warming, Climatic changes

Started to worry about just how hot our world is going to get, and whether you can do anything about it? As the effect of climate change grows by the day, so does the amount of hot air and bluster spouted by politicians and businessmen on what we should do about it. What with the excuses, the lies, the fudged figures, the PR greenwashing and the downright misinformation on the power of everything from wind turbines to carbon trading, when it comes to saving the world, most people don't know what they're talking about.Luckily, George Monbiot – scourge of big business, riler of governments, arch-enemy of climate change deniers everywhere – does. Packed with killer facts and inspiring ideas, shot through with passion and underlined by brilliant investigative journalism, with a copy of Heat you really can protect the planet.'I defy you to read this book and not feel motivated to change' The Times

2006

Page views of George Monbiots by language

Over the past year George Monbiot has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 168,821 views, followed by Dutch (8,070), and French (4,711). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Spanish (430.19%), Arabic (161.01%), and Dutch (123.11%)