the late environmentalist, author, & philosopher
Economists can no longer predict the course of our economy. The limits of their discipline are now apparent. A broader economic theory is required to deal with the post-industrial age. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 9 No. 6, September 1979. “The economist’s desk may be covered with references containing the latest indicators of the health [...]
What has caused the epidemics that are currently decimating our trees? The factors involved are intimately linked to economic development – and the only hope for our trees lies in de-industrialisation. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 9, Nos. 4–5, August 1979. Trees are threatened with extinction. Those that survive the woodman’s axe and the developer’s [...]
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 [...]
An indefatigable champion of forests, Richard St Barbe Baker has travelled worldwide persuading governments and people of the value of trees. He has battled on behalf of the Redwoods of California and planted trees in the Sahara in an attempt to halt the encroaching desert. Recently he visited Cornwall. Edward Goldsmith talks to him . [...]
Book review: A Perspective of Environmental Pollution, by Martin W. Holdgate. Cambridge University Press. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 9 No. 8–9, November–December 1979. This is a very thorough look at environmental pollution in all its various aspects. Dr Holdgate was director of the Central Unit on Environmental Pollution in the Department of the Environment [...]
A leading article for The Ecologist Vol. 9 No. 8/9, November/December 1979. Republished in The Doomsday Funbook (Jon Carpenter Books, February 2006). See ordering information for the Funbook. The most obvious problem involved in fixing an acceptable level of any pollutant is that susceptibility to different chemical substances varies from individual to individual, even more [...]
The changes that have occurred in our society during the 1970s have not led me to modify the predictions I made ten years ago regarding the medium (thirty years) to long-term future of this country, which were published in the last chapter of my book Can Britain Survive? published in 1971. To predict the exact [...]
A review of: The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Trees, Timbers And Forests Of The World. Edited by Herbert Edlin and Maurice Nimmo. Salamander Books Ltd. The first thing to say about this book is that it is an incredibly good buy at the price. It is beautifully illustrated throughout with a mass of coloured drawings and [...]
