http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org the late environmentalist, author, & philosopher Tue, 22 May 2012 09:35:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/28/the-fall-of-the-roman-empire/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/28/the-fall-of-the-roman-empire/#comments Sat, 01 Feb 2003 00:00:32 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/edwardgoldsmith/?p=28 A social and ecological interpretation In this popular essay, Edward Goldsmith finds that internal moral and political decay and unsustainable agriculture underlie the fall of the Roman Empire, while the Barbarian invasions were merely the coup de grâce. The comparisons with our own society and misguided sense of permanence are unsettling. Originally published in The [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/28/the-fall-of-the-roman-empire/feed/ 1