george monbiot, welcome to hardtalk. thanks, stephen. you have been a campaigner and writer on environmental issues for decades, warning about the toxic relationship between human beings and our planet. i just wonder how you prioritise? how do you decide where to focus? mm, it's very hard. i mean, every week when i'm writing a column for the guardian, for instance, or making a video, i have a choice of about 20 different topics that i could latch onto. it's very frightening. i mean, to be environmentally aware, to have an environmental education is, as the great writer aldo leopold put it, to live in a world of wounds. you're surrounded by grief, you're surrounded by the pain of what you're seeing, and surrounded by fear, also. i mean, it's not easy to see how we're going to get through this century, let alone those that follow. your latest book, regenesis, essentially describes the way we produce food around the world as perhaps the single most damaging thing we are doing to the natural world. and yet we all need to eat. mm—hm. and than

george monbiot, welcome to hardtalk. thanks, stephen.toxic relationship between human beings and our planet. i just wonder how you prioritise? how do you decide where to focus? mm, it's very hard. i mean, every week when i'm writing a column for the guardian, for instance, or making a video, i have a choice of about 20 different topics that i could latch onto. it's very frightening. i mean, to be environmentally aware, to have an environmental education is, as the great writer aldo leopold put it, to live in a world of wounds. you're surrounded by grief, you're surrounded by the pain of what you're seeing, and surrounded by fear, also.

well, my guest today, the writer and environmental campaigner george monbiot, has spent decades addressing?