http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org the late environmentalist, author, & philosopher Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:32:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1074/social-disintegration-causes/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1074/social-disintegration-causes/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:15:52 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1074 This is Chapter 20 of the book Can Britain Survive?, published by Tom Stacey, London, 1971, and Sphere Books, London, 1971 (paperback). Another version of this article was published in The Ecologist, Vol. 1 No. 13, July 1971. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » When social systems (or any other systems) join together to [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1074/social-disintegration-causes/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/782/did-big-business-kill-my-brother/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/782/did-big-business-kill-my-brother/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:30:27 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=782 Edward Goldsmith on how Sir James’s death from cancer might have been prevented. This article was published in the Sunday Telegraph, 3 August 1997. A fortnight ago my brother, Jimmy Goldsmith, died of cancer. His courage was absolutely indomitable. But how can his loss not make me angry? We will never know for sure the [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/782/did-big-business-kill-my-brother/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/727/the-gene-for-unemployment/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/727/the-gene-for-unemployment/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:25:04 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=727 There is an increasing tendency to blame human ills – physical and psychological – on ‘defective’ genes. But is it our genes that are defective? Or is it rather the pathological environment in which we live? Deprived of community, eating nutritionally impoverished foods, surrounded by industrial pollution . . . the raw conditions of life [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/727/the-gene-for-unemployment/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/897/the-disintegration-of-pre-islamic-society-in-north-arabia/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/897/the-disintegration-of-pre-islamic-society-in-north-arabia/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:15:16 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=897 The decline of the many municipal religions of the city-states of North Arabia created the opening for the establishment of Islam as the national religion of the Arab people. From Towards a Unified Science, The Ecologist Vol. 1 No. 18, December 1971. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » We know very little about the [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/897/the-disintegration-of-pre-islamic-society-in-north-arabia/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1215/jean-liedloff-r-i-p/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1215/jean-liedloff-r-i-p/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:44:31 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1215 An obituary for Jean Liedloff—former editor of The Ecologist and author of The Continuum Concept—who died on March 15th, 2011. See below for a list of Jean Liedloff’s contributions to The Ecologist. A “Living Treasure” Dies by Geralyn Gendreau “Jean Liedloff, author of The Continuum Concept, died peacefully in the pre-dawn hours on her houseboat [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1215/jean-liedloff-r-i-p/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/802/schooling-the-world/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/802/schooling-the-world/#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:00:53 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=802 “Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden”. Education as the ultimate act of Western colonialism, destroying cultural diversity and spreading human monoculture—in its own image—around the globe. Interviews with Wade Davis, Vandana Shiva, Helena Norberg-Hodge, et alia. Schooling the World website. Trailer below.]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/802/schooling-the-world/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/788/cancer-the-real-causes/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/788/cancer-the-real-causes/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 1997 23:00:56 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=788 Edward Goldsmith shows how the barely-restrained pollution of the chemical and nuclear industries are to blame for the growth of cancer. Unpublished article, written 9 September 1997. See also Cancer: are the experts lying? I once spent the night at the flat of a friend of mine in Paris. He worked for a somewhat shady [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/788/cancer-the-real-causes/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/673/cancer-isnt-natural/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/673/cancer-isnt-natural/#comments Sat, 30 Aug 1997 23:00:21 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=673 Letter in the Sunday Telegraph, 31st August, 1997. Professor Sir Richard Doll, Britain’s leading expert on the epidemiology of cancer, whose letter you published last week, insists that the incidence of the disease is falling. But he also insists (in each case against all the evidence) that asbestos does not cause lung cancer and that [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/673/cancer-isnt-natural/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/710/cancer-are-the-experts-lying/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/710/cancer-are-the-experts-lying/#comments Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:05 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=710 "Cancer is now a disease that afflicts one out of three people, and everybody knows in their hearts, and also on the basis of countless studies, what one of the main causes are: exposure to carcinogenic (cancer-causing) chemicals in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe, and ionising radiation - from medical X-rays, nuclear tests and radioactive emissions from nuclear plants."]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/710/cancer-are-the-experts-lying/feed/ 1 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/721/society-as-a-natural-system/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/721/society-as-a-natural-system/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 1992 23:00:50 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=721 Chapter 1 of The Stable Society: its structure and control: Towards a Social Cybernetics, Wadebridge Ecological Centre, UK, 1978 « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » Governments throughout the World are failing dismally to solve the problems that confront them, and to control the societies that have elected them to office. There are many reasons: [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/721/society-as-a-natural-system/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/53/the-medical-industrial-complex/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/53/the-medical-industrial-complex/#comments Thu, 31 May 1990 23:00:15 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/edwardgoldsmith/?p=53 A review of Health and the global environment by Ross Hume Hall. Polity Press, London 1990. Twenty years ago, our task was to establish the exact nature of the environmental problems that confronted us and to work out how best they could be solved. This task has now been largely achieved. We do not know [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/53/the-medical-industrial-complex/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/841/a-theoretical-non-disciplinary-approach-to-environmental-education/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/841/a-theoretical-non-disciplinary-approach-to-environmental-education/#comments Tue, 01 Jan 1985 00:00:00 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=841 Most environmental education in our schools and Universities remains rooted in apparently value-free ‘scientific’ knowledge. However modern science has been powerfully instrumental in shaping our minds to accept the worldview of industrialism, and the replacement of the living biosphere with the dysfunctional artificial ‘technosphere’ that is the inevitable if unplanned product of industrialism. Unpublished, 1985, [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/841/a-theoretical-non-disciplinary-approach-to-environmental-education/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1018/dams-and-disease/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1018/dams-and-disease/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 1984 00:00:58 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1018 Published as Chapter 7 of The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: Volume 1. Overview. Wadebridge Ecological Centre, Worthyvale Manor Camelford, Cornwall PL32 9TT, UK, 1984. By Edward Goldsmith and Nicholas Hildyard. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » Introduction When a river is dammed and a large artificial lake is created, those forms [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1018/dams-and-disease/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1015/dams-and-society-the-problems-of-resettlement/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1015/dams-and-society-the-problems-of-resettlement/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 1984 00:00:25 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1015 Published as Chapter 2 of The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: Volume 1. Overview. Wadebridge Ecological Centre, Worthyvale Manor Camelford, Cornwall PL32 9TT, UK, 1984. By Edward Goldsmith and Nicholas Hildyard. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » The scale of resettlement programmes One of the inevitable consequences of flooding an area is [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1015/dams-and-society-the-problems-of-resettlement/feed/ 2 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1028/social-and-environmental-impact-studies/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1028/social-and-environmental-impact-studies/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 1984 00:00:16 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1028 Published as Chapter 18 of The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: Volume 1. Overview. Wadebridge Ecological Centre, Worthyvale Manor Camelford, Cornwall PL32 9TT, UK, 1984. By Edward Goldsmith and Nicholas Hildyard. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » By this time, the reader will probably be asking why we obstinately continue to build [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1028/social-and-environmental-impact-studies/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1076/the-ecology-of-health/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1076/the-ecology-of-health/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 1980 23:00:08 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1076 Modern health services have failed to deliver the promised goods, argues Edward Goldsmith. He attributes this failure to the “chemical warfare” approach to treating disease and our decision, as a society, to subordinate health needs to the imperatives of the economy and industry. It was originally published in The Ecologist Vol. 10 Nos. 6–7, July-September [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1076/the-ecology-of-health/feed/ 0