the late environmentalist, author, & philosopher
From the Telegraph Magazine, 16 December 2006. By Annabel Freyberg. “Why aren”t more people angry?” the environmentalist Edward Goldsmith asks. “Modern man is wrecking the planet and doing so at an increasingly rapid rate.” For more than 35 years Goldsmith has questioned the orthodoxies of the developed world. A brave and visionary activist and thinker [...]
Published in February 2006, the Doomsday Fun Book is a folio-sized collection of editorials and other short articles, richly illustrated by Richard Willson, who was cartoonist extraordinary to The Ecologist from its beginning in 1970, and edited by Edward Goldsmith. Find booksellers for the Funbook. Read the back cover blurb here. As Edward Goldsmith states [...]
A tribute to John Victor Aspinall: gambler, casino owner and zoo-keeper—11 June 1926–26 June 2000. This article, written on 8th August 2000, was included in the limited edition volume John Aspinall among his friends, edited by Robin Birley (Harley Publishing, 2000). John Aspinall founded Howletts Zoo, near Canterbury in Kent, which continues under the management [...]
Edward Goldsmith interviewed in Siena, Italy. (Date unknown) «Italian language» (overdubbed) Part 1 Part 2
A compendium of quotes from reviews of The Way: an ecological worldview by Edward Goldsmith (1992). ‘This is, simply, the most devastating critique we have had in recent years of the mainstream scientific enterprise and of modernism generally . . . should be read by ecologists, environmentalists, and virtually everyone who has an interest in the earth and its [...]
Editorial article by Edward Goldsmith published in The Ecologist Vol 20 No 4, July–August 1990, the magazine’s 20th anniversary issue. This is our twentieth anniversary issue. Now may be the time to look back and take stock. I suppose my first reaction is one of amazement that The Ecologist should have lasted so long. Among [...]
