Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot

The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Wilfully engineering information disorder harmful to society should be illegal - a crime - therefore challengeable by law. Yet we have governments prescribing the opposite by their continuous failing to stop it happening online and pretending 'freedom of speech' is legitimate in all instances.

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