the late environmentalist, author, & philosopher
Books by Edward Goldsmith
Published in February 2006, the Doomsday Fun Book is a folio-sized collection of editorials and other short articles, richly illustrated by Richard Willson, who was cartoonist extraordinary to The Ecologist from its beginning in 1970, and edited by Edward Goldsmith. Find booksellers for the Funbook. Read the back cover blurb here. As Edward Goldsmith states [...]
Published as chapter 26 of The Case Against the the Global Economy, Sierra Club Books, 1996, under the title “The last word – a personal commentary”. « previous chapter · contents Original note: There are no cosmetic solutions to the problems that confront us. They are the inevitable consequences of economic growth or development and in [...]
The present paper is a synthesis of chapters 31, 32 and 33 of The Way: an ecological world view, by Edward Goldsmith (University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1998). It may also be viewed at www.tilgher.it/bioartgold.html. It was published in Rivista di Biologia/Biology Forum Vol. 93 No. 3, 2000. Abstract. Behaviorists assume that living things memorize [...]
Published as Chapter 52 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 » “The stability of complex continental ecosystems was no armour against the Japanese beetle, the European gypsy moth [...]
Published as Chapter 61 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 » “Tao is like Dike, the Way, the way of nature; and man’s whole religion, his whole moral [...]
This article first appeared under the title “Global Trade and the Environment”, as Chapter 7 of The Case Against the Global Economy by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith. Earthscan, London, June 2001; and Sierra Club Books, San Francisco. This extended version was published in The Ecologist Vol. 27 No. 6, 1997. contents · next chapter » [...]
This important essay exposes modern ‘development’ as colonialism repackaged and ferociously applied via transnational corporations, compliant local elites and global institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF—all underwritten by the threat of military force. It was published in The Ecologist Vol. 27 No. 2, March–April 1997. An extended version was published in 2001 [...]
This is the introduction to The Tory Record – an assessment (published by Jon Carpenter Publishing in 1997 on behalf of The Commission for Assessing the Conservative Record). The booklet was inspired by Teddy Goldsmith, who also wrote the introduction, while cartoons were by the incomparable Richard Willson. Other chapters were: Food quality – Tim [...]
