the late environmentalist, author, & philosopher
Interviews of Edward Goldsmith
Sanctuary Asia interviews Edward Goldsmith, February 2004. Meet Edward Goldsmith Sanctuary Asia: “Why are you so angry?” Edward Goldsmith: “Modern man is wrecking the planet and doing so at an increasingly rapid rate. Our remaining forests are being systematically clear cut or simply burned, our agricultural land compacted, eroded, desertified or water-logged and salinised by [...]
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 [...]
Judith Elliston interviews Teddy Goldsmith for Pataphysics. The article may also be found on their previous website here. Judith Elliston: Do you think there is a heightening happening in late-capitalist development, before the end – a speeding up of bio-destruction and growing inequalities, failure of democracies, etc . . . ? Teddy Goldsmith: We have [...]
The Rediff Business Interview, March 2000: “Exactly a fortnight before the world’s most famous salesman for globalisation, US President Bill Clinton, came to India, we had another famous visitor. Edward Goldsmith, founding editor of The Ecologist and a cult figure of the environmental movement, warning us against the colonising impact of globalisation. Goldsmith believes that [...]
Edward Goldsmith interviewed in Siena, Italy. (Date unknown) «Italian language» (overdubbed) Part 1 Part 2
Steven Ferry interviews Edward Goldsmith for Government Technology magazine, May 1999. Previously published under the title “The Destruction of domestic economies”. Among Edward Goldsmith’s 15 published books, The Case Against the Global Economy: and for a turn toward the local received the 1997 Best Book of the Year Award for Ecological and Transformational Politics from [...]
Interview by Lucy Miller published in The Express, 3 February, 1999. “Edward Goldsmith, 70, the environmental campaigner and brother of the late multi-millionaire Sir James Goldsmith, launched his magazine The Ecologist almost 30 years ago. After running an organic farm in Cornwall for 17 years, he now lives in Richmond, London, with his second wife [...]
Edward Goldsmith reveals his solutions to Simon Retallack, for The Beaver (LSE), 27th February 1996 If the environment and our social structures are being degraded it is because they cannot sustain the present impact of our economic activities. We have no alternative but to reduce that impact and that means we have to move our [...]
