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How to feed people under a regime of climate change - Modern agriculture is not only highly vulnerable to climate change, it is also a major cause of climate change due to its emissions of greenhouse gases and its damaging effects on soil and freshwater resources. A combination of traditional agricultural knowledge and techniques, combined with newly emerging sustainable technologies, may hold the answers we need. Published in World Affairs Journal, winter 2003. Reprinted in Surviving the Century - facing climate chaos and other global challenges, edited by Herbert Girardet (Earthscan, May 2007).

Rewriting economics - "Let us see why modern economics produces such a distorted view of our relationship with the real world in which we live. The main reason is that modern economics has been developed in total isolation from the disciplines that seek to understand the living world ... ". A short lecture delivered to the LSE's Environmental Initiatives Network, subsequently printed in their Journal, February 2003.

Towards a biospheric ethic - Modern moral philosophers have based their ethical principles on a grossly distorted view of nature and human society. The result has been a 'technospheric' ethic that seeks to equate progress and the moral good with economic expansion and the dominance of man over nature. A new 'biospheric' ethic is required. Written for the Institute of Science and Society, January 2003.

Ecology - a bridge - review of Ecology: A Bridge Between Science and Society, by Eugene Odum. Third Edition published by Sennar Associates, Sunderland, Mass, USA, 1997.

Rethinking basic assumptions - an article for the Parliamentary Monitor. The 'New Labour' government led by Tony Blair is not just a disappointment from an ecological perspective, it is the worst government that Britain has ever had: assiduous in its efforts to please multinational corporations, ever seeking to promote dangerous and untested new technologies, utterly subservient to power, and despite its superficial green rhetoric, always happy sacrifice the environment in pursuit of its political, economic and military objectives.

Art and ethics - 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".

Can humanity adapt to the world that science is creating? - human beings evolved as small bands of hunter-gatherers, and our fundamental, instinctive nature remains adapted to that role. Small wonder then that we are so maladjusted to the world which we have created. As we pursue the path of 'progress', fully expecting that science, technology and economic growth will lead us into a future of happiness and prosperity, we are only drawing further away from our origins, and from our true natures. Unpublished, 25 January 2001.

Intelligence is universal in life - a synthesis of chapters 31, 32 and 33 of The Way: an ecological world view. Published in Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum Vol. 93 No. 3, 2000. Goldsmith argues that intelligence is no exclusive preserve of humankind.

The Way - an ecological world view - an article for Resurgence magazine which introduces Edward Goldsmith's great work The Way. In it he denounces the world view of 'modernism' and argues for a new ecologically-based ethic to take its place.

The next thirty years - writing at the turn of the Millennium, Edward Goldsmith predicts that hard times are ahead, failing drastic action to curb the social and environmental evils that beset us.

The European project - an exposition of the problems inherent in the structure and institutions of the European Union.

On Seattle - some comments on the humiliation of the World Trade Organization.

Gaia and the global corporations (extended version) - "Development involves methodically destroying the real world or the world of living things in order to substitute in its stead a totally different world; the surrogate world or world of human artefacts ... ". This article, based on Edward Goldsmith's keynote address at the International Forum on Globalization in April 1998, was published in Caduceus magazine issues 42 and 43, winter 1998 and spring 1999.

The real causes of cancer - "Cancer is now a disease that afflicts one woman out of three and one man out of two, and everybody knows in their hearts what the main causes are: exposure to carcinogenic chemicals in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe, and ionising radiation ... However the 'Cancer Establishment' ... will not admit it so the cancer epidemic is blamed on such things as faulty genes, viruses, eating fatty foods and drinking alcohol ... ". Unpublished, September 1997.

The Way - a synthesis - This article by Edward Goldsmith represents the 'synthesized statement' of his great work The Way: an ecological world view. It was published in InterCulture Vol. XXX no. 1, Winter - Spring 1997, Issue no 132.

Re-embedding religion in society, the natural world and the cosmos - written in 1997 following Edward Goldsmith's participation in a meeting on Patmos the previous year, to discuss religious aspects of the protection of the natural world. He argues that the Church must develop a "new theology ... based on what we are finding out about the original cosmic nature of the Judaeo-Christian tradition" and "have the courage to side with all those people who seek to reverse economic development and in particular the globalization of this fatal process".

Cancer: are the experts lying? - yes they are, in denying the role of carcinogenic pollution, both chemical and radioactive, while supporting implausible theories which pin the blame for cancer on cancer sufferers themselves.

The Great Takeover and its reversal - a personal commentary on the development of the global economy.

Work! Work! Work! - the history of industrialism is the story of producing more with fewer people. Teddy Goldsmith looks at the implications. Published in Real World No. 4, Autumn 1994.

Development and colonialism - in this important essay Edward Goldsmith explores why development, whether described as 'sustainable', 'ecological', 'appropriate' or otherwise, will only deepen the poverty and misery of poor tropical nations. Published in Ecoscript No. 35, June 1993.

No, the real global threat is the relentless demand for growth - writing in the Sunday Times on 31 May 1992, Edward Goldsmith examines the forthcoming Earth Summit conference in Rio de Janeiro - reaching pessimistic conclusions which have been all too amply fulfilled.

World Ecological Areas Programme: a proposal - Edward Goldsmith presents a plan to save the tropical forests, based on paying tropical countries to conserve, expand and make sustainable economic use of their forests. Published in Environmental Conservation Vol. 7 No. 1, winter 1981.

Education - what for? - this essay explores the paradox that the more we are educated, the more literacy has declined, while traditional knowledge essential for the transmission of culture to new generations is lost. Mass education, Edward Goldsmith argues, is doomed to fail in its essential task of socialising increasingly alienated younger generations. First published in The Ecologist, January 1974, then in PHP (Japan), December 1975) and Oko Journal (Switzerland), February 1975. This revised version appeared in 1988 as Chapter 2 of The Great U-Turn.

Words and Models - a systems approach to linguistics - on the use and abuse of words and language. Published in Kybernetes (the International Journal of Cybernetics and General Systems) Vol. 1 No. 2, 1972.