This Cant Be Happening

In twenty short books Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In the galvanising speeches and essays brought together in This Cant Be Happening George Monbiot calls on humanity to stop averting its gaze from the destruction of the living planet and wake up to the greatest predicament we have ever faced.Over the past 75 years a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades becoming the classics of a movement. Together these books show the richness of environmental thought and point the way to a fairer saner greener world.About the AuthorGeorge Monbiot is an authorGuardian columnist and environmental campaigner. His best-selling books includeFeral: Rewilding the Land Sea and Human Life andHeat: How We Can Stop the Planet Burning; his latest isOut of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis. George cowrote the concept albumBreaking the Spell of Loneliness with musician Ewan McLennan and has made a number of viral videos. One of them adapted from his 2013 TED talkHow Wolves Change Rivers has been viewed on YouTube over 40 million times. Another on Natural Climate Solutions which he co-presented with Greta Thunberg has been watched over 60 million times.