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An article written for Resurgence magazine around the time of publication of Teddy’s great work The Way in 1992. I regard the book as my life’s work. I started working on it more than forty years ago, and have worked on it, on and off, ever since. It starts off by showing how totally aberrant [...]
A review of The Way by Edward Goldsmith by Pedro Burrezo, editor of The Ecologist for Spain and Latin America and member of its publisher, EcoActivistas. It was originally published in The Ecologist under the title ‘Icaria – la mirada esférica’. This article was kindly translated for this website by Victoria Miller. Edward Goldsmith is [...]
This is one of several articles by Edward Goldsmith in which he formulates, in increasing detail, the necessity for humankind to adopt “an ecological world view”, and investigating its nature. These short works culminate in his great work The Way – an ecoloigical world view, first published in 1992. This article is of uncertain date [...]
Published as Chapter 58 of The Way: An Ecological Worldview, originally published in 1992. This text is taken from the revised and enlarged edition, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1998. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » ” [General purpose] money is one of the shatteringly simplifying ideas of all time, and like any [...]
Edward Goldsmith describes how the nuclear industry and many other multinational corporations amount to little more than vast criminal enterprises (1992).
Published as Chapter 56 of The Way: An Ecological Worldview, originally published in 1992. This text is taken from the revised and enlarged edition, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1998. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » “Organise your actions for your own benefit. God implanted self-interest in the human breast as a motive [...]
Published as Chapter 59 of The Way: An Ecological Worldview, originally published in 1992. This text is taken from the revised and enlarged edition, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1998. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » “Whenever the timber trade is good, permanent famine reigns in the Ogowe region.” Albert Schweitzer “Free [...]
Published as Appendix 4 of The Way: An Ecological Worldview, originally published in 1992. This text is taken from the revised and enlarged edition, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1998. « previous chapter · contents Mainstream science sees evolutionary change as exclusively the result of changes affecting the genes of individual living things. No other [...]
