George Monbiot

George Monbiot is a columnist for the Guardian newspaper and an author. During his research in regions of Indonesia, Brazil, and Africa, he survived shipwrecks and beatings until he ended up being clinically dead under guard in a British hospital. He has served as a visiting professor at the Universities of Oxford, Bristol, Keele, and East London, covering a wide range of subjects from philosophy to environmental science. In 1995, Nelson Mandela honored him with the United Nations Global 500 Award for his environmental work. He has also been awarded the Lloyds National Screenwriting Prize for his screenplay "The Norwegian," the Sony Award as a radio producer, the Sir Peter Kent Award, and the One World National Press Award. His published works include "Captive State," "Poisoned Arrows," "Amazon Watershed," and "No Man's Land."