the late environmentalist, author, & philosopher
Is there a coherent ecological defence policy? I have yet to see it. Most members of the Green Party or ecological parties in Europe are quite rightly strongly against nuclear weapons but few have considered exactly what defence policy should be set up in its stead. Some will argue that defence is unnecessary (this is [...]
In this article Edward Goldsmith explains how traditional wars were ritualised conflicts in which mortality was minimised, in contrast to the mass death and destruction of modern industrial modes of warfare. It was originally published in The Ecologist in May 1974, then in Le Sauvage in April 1975 (France). This revised version appeared as Chapter [...]
