the late environmentalist, author, & philosopher
Review of: Topsoil and Civilization by Vernon Gill Carter and Tom Dale. University of Oklahoma Press Revised Edition, 1974. This book deals with the most important problem which man has had to face since the Neolithic Revolution, and the one which has attracted the least attention: soil erosion. It tells the tragic tale of how [...]
A leading article for The Ecologist Vol. 5 No. 6, June 1975. Republished in The Doomsday Funbook (Jon Carpenter Books, February 2006). See ordering information for the Funbook. Dr. John Howell, Director of the Institute of Family Psychiatry, has stated quite seriously that the mother is not necessarily the best person to look after her [...]
Review of: The Environmental Future edited by Nicholas Polunin, Macmillan This book contains the proceedings of the first International Conference on the Environmental Future held in Finland from 27 June to 3 July 1971. The object of the meeting was, “to bring together for free discussion in a stimulating atmosphere, as complete a range of [...]
An article from 1972 pointing out why, despite the continuing technologically driven attempts to feed an ever growing world population with an ever growing appetite, each attempt eventually fails, leading inevitably to yet another food crisis potentially worse than the previous. The world food crisis is upon us. Until a few months ago, august food [...]
From “The Ecologist Looks at Stockholm”, The Ecologist, June 1972, Vol. 2 No. 6 Subject Area I Planning and Management of Human Settlements for Environmental Quality This Report provides a very adequate diagnosis of the present crisis in human settlements. This crisis is correctly attributed to a number of interacting factors, foremost among which is [...]
Appendix C: 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 [...]
An opinion piece by Robert Allen and Edward Goldsmith, published in The Ecologist Vol. 1 No. 12, June 1971. This prescient manifesto anticipated the increasing recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples throughout the world. Since this article was written in 1971, the Inuit people of Canada and Greenland have both been granted significant land [...]
This is the original editorial piece that launched The Ecologist in July 1970. The Planet Earth is unique in our solar system in displaying those environmental conditions required to sustain complex forms of life. In what are, in evolutionary terms, very recent times, its surface or biosphere has been seriously disturbed by two events giving [...]
