George Monbiot: There are several services and assets I would like to see nationalized. But at the top of my list is neither water, nor trains, nor development land, much as I’d like to see them brought under national or local public ownership. Above all, I want to see the nationalisation of my own business: environmental persuasion.

Leaving it to private citizens to recruit and organize to avoid globalheating disaster, then criminalizing all effective methods they can use,guarantees the job won't be done.