While researching for his travel books in Indonesia, East Africa and Brazil he had some problems. Monbiot was shipwrecked, shot at and stung into a coma by hornets. After being declared dead in a Hospital in Kenya he decided to come back to Britain and moved on to the Politics of Environmentalism and Globalisation.

In 1995 he was awarded the United Nations Global 500 Award for environmental achievement, which was presented to him by Nelson Mandela. He has also been named by the Evening Standard as one of the 25 most influential people in Britain, and by the Independent on Sunday as one of the 40 international prophets of the 21st Century.

In 2004 he started working with George Galloway and the Socialist Alliance to form a left-wing alliance to contest the European Parliament elections.

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