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New Video: The Guardian columnist explains what’s actually behind the Dutch farmer protests and the truth about nitrate pollution as part of Sentient Media original series The Correction.
Words by Ana Bradley
In this special edition of Sentient Media The Correction series, George Monbiot — author, columnist for The Guardian, environmental campaigner and former investigative reporter for the BBC — debunks Russell Brand’s viral video against the Dutch government’s new law to reduce harmful nitrate pollution in livestock farming.
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Watch the full conversation below or listen to it here as George Monbiot and Sentient Media Executive Director, Ana Bradley, discuss in detail the link between the far-right and farming and why conspiracy theories spread by influencers like Brand are so damaging.
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Monbiot’s column in the Guardian
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