the late environmentalist, author, & philosopher
This letter was written to John Vidal, the Guardian‘s environment editor, in response to accusations by George Monbiot in “Stealing our clothes”, published in the Guardian on 30 April 2002. The article also appears on Monbiot’s website under the title “Black shirts in green trousers”. In the article, Monbiot asserts that Edward Goldsmith “assumes that [...]
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 [...]
Introduction to the booklet World Rescue by Nares Craig, 2002 The French seventeenth century philosopher, Blaise Pascale, once apologized to a lady he corresponded with for writing her such a long letter, but, as he sought to make her understand, he “did not have the time to write her a shorter one”. This may appear [...]
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 [...]
In this letter, published in The Guardian on Tuesday 18 July 2000, Edward Goldsmith responds to Age of Rage by Fred Pearce, published previously in The Guardian on Wednesday July 12, 2000. See also My Answer, Goldsmith’s extensive rebuttal of these and other similar attacks. Fred Pearce’s article on The Ecologist‘s record over the last [...]
To reconstitute local economies is an imperative if we are to prevent misery and chaos when the global economy collapses. We need them in any case to reduce our environmental impact and to render possible local co-operation and solidarity that can alone assure our livelihood and welfare on a sustainable basis. LETS and Time Dollar [...]
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 [...]
Edward Goldsmith speaks to the International Forum On Globalization Global Teach-In Conference, Washington DC, USA, 11 May 1996. The talk was broadcast by TUC Radio, and produced by Maria Gilardin [TUC Radio, Box 410009, San Francisco, CA 94141, USA. Panel 2 comprised Ignacio Peon Escalante, Cece Fadope, Tim Lang, Sara Larrain, Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, Richard Moore, [...]
