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Section 3: A Blueprint for Survival. The Blueprint occupied the entire issue of The Ecologist Vol. 2 No. 1, January 1972, in advance of the world’s first Environment Summit (the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, in Stockholm). The principal authors were Edward Goldsmith and Robert Allen, with additional help from Michael Allaby, John [...]
Section 2: A Blueprint for Survival. The Blueprint occupied the entire issue of The Ecologist Vol. 2 No. 1, January 1972, in advance of the world’s first Environment Summit (the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, in Stockholm). The principal authors were Edward Goldsmith and Robert Allen, with additional help from Michael Allaby, John [...]
This paper was first published in the General Systems: Yearbook of the Society for General Systems Research, Volume XVI, 1971. It subsequently appeared as Chapter 3 of Can Britain Survive?, published by Tom Stacey, London, 1971, and Sphere Books, London, 1971 (paperback). « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » The first stage in the study [...]
This is the introduction to the book Can Britain Survive?, published by Tom Stacey, London, 1971, and Sphere Books, London, 1971 (paperback). contents · next chapter » Our experts predict a rosy future for the inhabitants of these isles. By the end of the century, they maintain, our standard of living will have just about doubled, [...]
This prescient article was originally published as the concluding chapter of Can Britain Survive?, published by Tom Stacey, London, 1971, and Sphere Books, London, 1971 (paperback). The article was reprinted two years later in The Ecologist Vol. 3 No. 11, November 1973, under the title “What of Britain’s future?” and with the following introductory paragraphs. [...]
A leading article for The Ecologist Vol. 1 No. 6, December 1970, by The Editors. Republished in The Doomsday Funbook (Jon Carpenter Books, February 2006). See ordering information for the Funbook. All but one of the papers presented at the third (and last) Conference of the Countryside in 1970, the great set piece of European [...]
Published in The Ecologist Vol. 1 No. 6, December 1970, it explores the need for a stable society, and how this can be achieved. Further information about this central concept in Goldsmith’s thought can be found in the editor’s note here. Affluence for everybody is an impossible dream: the world simply does not contain sufficient [...]
From a talk given in 1970. The ever increasing environmental problems that confront us and that we read more about every day in the daily papers, add up to what can he called without exaggeration an environmental crisis. The more we look at the situation, the more serious it appears. In fact this crisis is [...]
