http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org the late environmentalist, author, & philosopher Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:32:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/881/is-science-a-religion/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/881/is-science-a-religion/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:20:25 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=881 Published in The Ecologist Vol. 5 No. 2, February 1975. We live in an Age of Faith, not in God but in Science. If most of us are still capable of facing the mounting problems of the world today with relative. equanimity, this is because we believe that Science will provide us with the means [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/881/is-science-a-religion/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1074/social-disintegration-causes/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1074/social-disintegration-causes/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:15:52 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1074 This is Chapter 20 of the book Can Britain Survive?, published by Tom Stacey, London, 1971, and Sphere Books, London, 1971 (paperback). Another version of this article was published in The Ecologist, Vol. 1 No. 13, July 1971. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » When social systems (or any other systems) join together to [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1074/social-disintegration-causes/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1128/towards-the-stable-society-strategy-for-change/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1128/towards-the-stable-society-strategy-for-change/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:10:06 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1128 Section 2: A Blueprint for Survival. The Blueprint occupied the entire issue of The Ecologist Vol. 2 No. 1, January 1972, in advance of the world’s first Environment Summit (the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, in Stockholm). The principal authors were Edward Goldsmith and Robert Allen, with additional help from Michael Allaby, John [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1128/towards-the-stable-society-strategy-for-change/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/51/pollution-by-tourism/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/51/pollution-by-tourism/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:17 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/edwardgoldsmith/?p=51 Mass tourism is not a benign force of economic development, as popularly supposed. It rather corrodes the health, well-being and environment of the societies it collides with, while the promised benefits fail to materialise for the great majority of people. This article, one of the first ever critiques of mass tourism, was published in The [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/51/pollution-by-tourism/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/779/can-we-cope-with-the-growing-oil-shortage/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/779/can-we-cope-with-the-growing-oil-shortage/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:06:25 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=779 This is one of a series of six talks by Edward Goldsmith, broadcast on the World Business Report programme of the BBC World Service, 15-19 December 2003. See Related Articles on the right for others in the series. During much of the nearly 20 years I lived in rural Cornwall I had no car (though [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/779/can-we-cope-with-the-growing-oil-shortage/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/737/ecology-a-bridge/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/737/ecology-a-bridge/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:00:21 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=737 A previously unpublished book review of Ecology: A Bridge Between Science and Society, by Eugene Odum (third edition, published by Sennar Associates, Sunderland, Mass., USA, 1997). Eugene Odum, who was Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia, was probably the most distinguished ecologist of his day. His principal textbooks Basic Ecology (1983) and its [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/737/ecology-a-bridge/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/41/art-and-ethics/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/41/art-and-ethics/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:00:58 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/edwardgoldsmith/?p=41 Edward Goldsmith explores the themes of knowledge, intuition, aesthetics and the Sacred. Published in The Structurist magazine Nos. 41-42, 2001-2002: “Art and Altruism”. It seems increasingly clear that the principal method of acquiring knowledge about the World, is via a mysterious, ill-defined process we call intuition and that is closely related to our emotions and to [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/41/art-and-ethics/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/50/can-pollution-be-controlled/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/50/can-pollution-be-controlled/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:00:16 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/edwardgoldsmith/?p=50 This is a discussion of the multitude of pollutants, chemical and radiological, that are being pumped into the environment in the name of progress and development, and the failure of regulators to tackle the growing problem as to do so would challenge the principle of never-ending economic growth that threatens the entire biosphere. The article [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/50/can-pollution-be-controlled/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/900/spanner-in-the-works/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/900/spanner-in-the-works/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:00:32 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=900 Edward Goldsmith interviews Percy Schmeiser, the Canadian farmer who risked everything to challenge GM giant Monsanto. Interview conducted on 1 May 2004. Background: For 40 years Percy Schmeiser grew oilseed rape on his farm in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Usually, he would sow each year’s crop with seeds saved from the previous harvest. In [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/900/spanner-in-the-works/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/52/richard-benedict-goldschmidt/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/52/richard-benedict-goldschmidt/#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/edwardgoldsmith/?p=52 An overview of the life and work of the eminent German-American geneticist, Richard Goldschmidt, and the angry reaction he received from the defenders of Orthodox Darwinism as a result of the challenging theory of evolution expounded in his magnum opus The Material Basis of Evolution. Richard Benedict Goldschmidt was born in Frankfurt in 1878 and [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/52/richard-benedict-goldschmidt/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/550/globalisation-and-maori/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/550/globalisation-and-maori/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:41 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=550 Edward Goldsmith explains the corporate takeover of governments and the global centralised planning being orchestrated by multinationals via the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Globalisation and Maori explores this corporate agenda through its impact upon the Maori of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and other peoples. TKM Productions, Aotearoa 1998. See also Aotearoa: Land of the Long White [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/550/globalisation-and-maori/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1303/globalising-agriculture-is-not-sustainable/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1303/globalising-agriculture-is-not-sustainable/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:36 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1303 India and China are committing “one of the greatest crimes in history” in agreeing to allow Western agricultural produce into their markets, says Edward Goldsmith, founder of The Ecologist magazine and a celebrated pioneer of Britain’s environment movement since the sixties. Original title “Opening markets is not sustainable”. LONDON, August 26, 2002 (IPS) “Opening up [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1303/globalising-agriculture-is-not-sustainable/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/931/the-super-informed-society/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/931/the-super-informed-society/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:00:26 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=931 Or “Many paths to nonsense: information theory applied to the living world”. Will the proliferation of information technology really help us to solve the important issues we face today, or will it simply add to our already mounting problems? Goldsmith argues (in 1982) that the impending development of the internet and resulting “information revolution” will [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/931/the-super-informed-society/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/838/france-country-of-the-atom/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/838/france-country-of-the-atom/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:00:19 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=838 If nuclear power seems cheap in France, it is because half the costs have been ignored. An accurate accounting of costs, direct and indirect, reveals France’s massive nuclear electricity programme as a ruinously expensive folly. Written with Peter Bunyard, co-editor of The Ecologist. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 11 No. 6, December 1981. France’s nuclear [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/838/france-country-of-the-atom/feed/ 4 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/880/living-with-nature/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/880/living-with-nature/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:00:49 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=880 This is the original editorial piece that launched The Ecologist in July 1970. The Planet Earth is unique in our solar system in displaying those environ­mental conditions required to sustain complex forms of life. In what are, in evolutionary terms, very recent times, its surface or biosphere has been seriously disturbed by two events giving [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/880/living-with-nature/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/834/technology-a-false-religion/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/834/technology-a-false-religion/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:00:42 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=834 Review of Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences by Edward Tenner. Fourth Estate Limited, London 1996; 346pp, ISBN 1 85702-560-1. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 28 No. 5, September–October 1998. The most fundamental tenet of what is, in effect, the religion of modern Man, is that science and technology (with [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/834/technology-a-false-religion/feed/ 0