the late environmentalist, author, & philosopher
Nicholas Hildyard was a co-editor of The Ecologist from 1978 until 1997
Edward Goldsmith and Nicholas Hildyard, co-editor of The Ecologist, critique the FAO’s main policy document, World Agriculture: Toward 2000, and the whole model of capital-intensive, industrialised, export-oriented agriculture which it promotes. See also the critique of Toward 2000‘s policy to promote livestock production: “FAO’s projections for livestock”. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 21 No. 2, [...]
The Great U-Turn: De-industrialising Society was written by Edward Goldsmith and published by Green Books in 1988. It contains seven thought-provoking and prophetic essays on diverse themes. The Foreword was written by Nicholas Hildyard, a co-editor of The Ecologist, in March 1988. contents · next chapter » Edward Goldsmith is a radical in the true sense [...]
The world’s tropical forests are being destroyed at the rate of 100 acres every minute of the day. Their destruction has variously been described as “the greatest natural calamity since the Ice Age” [1], “the greatest biological disaster ever perpetrated by man” [2] and “a threat to civilisation second only to thermonuclear war”. [3] Editorial [...]
This essay is the introduction to Green Britain or Industrial Wasteland?, a collection of essays edited by Edward Goldsmith and Nicholas Hildyard, published in 1986 by Polity Press, Cambridge. contents · next chapter » Several themes run through the essays in this book. The first is that there is a direct, historical link between the increasingly [...]
Dams are never built in a political vacuum. For politicians they mean votes and prestige. To criticise dam projects is thus to face an uphill battle against the power of the state-one that is nearly impossible to win. Time and again we find that dams and other large-scale water projects have been given the go-ahead [...]
Published as Chapter 10 of The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: Volume 1. Overview. Wadebridge Ecological Centre, Worthyvale Manor Camelford, Cornwall PL32 9TT, UK, 1984. By Edward Goldsmith and Nicholas Hildyard « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » Floods: an increasing menace Floods are a serious problem in many river basins throughout the [...]
Editorial article published in The Ecologist Vol 14 No 5–6, June–July 1984. This article was co-authored by Ecologist editor Nicholas Hildyard. Commenting on the Bhopal tragedy, the Wall Street Journal expressed grave concern lest the disaster – which killed, according to unofficial sources, 20,000 people and maimed another 100,000 after a cloud of deadly methyl [...]
Published as Chapter 11 of The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: Volume 1. Overview. Wadebridge Ecological Centre, Worthyvale Manor Camelford, Cornwall PL32 9TT, UK, 1984. By Edward Goldsmith and Nicholas Hildyard. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » The causes of salinisation All soils contain salt. That salt is the result of what [...]
