These Brexiters will grind our environment into the dust | George Monbiot

Crucial portfolios have been given to people whoare prepared to scrub Britain’s features from the mapThe more urgent the environmental crisis becomes, the less we hear about it. It exposes the economic policies of all major parties – whether neoliberal or Keynesian – as incompatible with the times in which we live. To remark on what we are doing to the living planet is to fall into cognitive dissonance. It is easier to ignore it.This is the spirit in which our new prime ministe