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/1376/the-promethean-enterprise/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1376/the-promethean-enterprise/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:00:54 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1376 RapNews bring us their latest musings on what it’s all about (above); in particular: Man’s quest for ultimate knowledge. But is this the kind of knowledge that we really need? Edward Goldsmith suggests not, and shows how Science has become a kind of quasi-religious cult, misdirecting our attentions away from the knowledge and wisdom that [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1376/the-promethean-enterprise/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/881/is-science-a-religion/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/881/is-science-a-religion/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:20:25 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=881 Published in The Ecologist Vol. 5 No. 2, February 1975. We live in an Age of Faith, not in God but in Science. If most of us are still capable of facing the mounting problems of the world today with relative. equanimity, this is because we believe that Science will provide us with the means [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/881/is-science-a-religion/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/931/the-super-informed-society/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/931/the-super-informed-society/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:00:26 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=931 Or “Many paths to nonsense: information theory applied to the living world”. Will the proliferation of information technology really help us to solve the important issues we face today, or will it simply add to our already mounting problems? Goldsmith argues (in 1982) that the impending development of the internet and resulting “information revolution” will [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/931/the-super-informed-society/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/753/whatever-happened-to-ecology/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/753/whatever-happened-to-ecology/#comments Sun, 30 Jun 2002 23:00:28 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=753 The science of Ecology has been taken over by the cult of scientific reductionism and has become a weapon in the war on the living world being waged by industrial man. This article of July 2002 is a greatly extended and updated version of the article “Whatever happened to ecology?” first published in The Ecologist [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/753/whatever-happened-to-ecology/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/708/can-humanity-adapt-to-the-world-that-science-is-creating/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/708/can-humanity-adapt-to-the-world-that-science-is-creating/#comments Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:00:43 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=708 "It should be obvious to most people, though it is rarely stated, especially in academic circles, that the environment most friendly to the needs of living things, that within which their behaviour is most fulfilling and adaptive, can only be that to which they have been adapted by their evolution and upbringing ... There is no reason for supposing that man is in any way exempt from the operation of this fundamental principle. But what is man's natural environment?"]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/708/can-humanity-adapt-to-the-world-that-science-is-creating/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/887/is-science-neutral/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/887/is-science-neutral/#comments Fri, 31 Mar 2000 23:00:35 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=887 Following the articles in The Ecologist of April 2000 examining the independence of the scientific world, developmental biologist Professor Lewis Wolpert of University College London debates the neutrality of science with environmentalist and Ecologist founder Edward Goldsmith. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 30 No. 3, May 2000. Dear Professor Wolpert, One thing that modern science [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/887/is-science-neutral/feed/ 1 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/980/why-not-weve-got-a-licence/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/980/why-not-weve-got-a-licence/#comments Fri, 01 May 1998 14:48:58 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=980 A leading article for The Ecologist Vol. 28 No. 3, May 1998. Revised in January & February 2000, and republished in The Doomsday Funbook (Jon Carpenter Books, February 2006). See ordering information for the Funbook. In the modern world, all benefits are seen as man-made – the product of economic development. Thus health is seen [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/980/why-not-weve-got-a-licence/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/977/did-god-really-do-such-a-bad-job/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/977/did-god-really-do-such-a-bad-job/#comments Fri, 01 May 1998 14:14:37 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=977 A leading article for The Ecologist Vol. 28 No. 3, May–June 1998. Republished in The Doomsday Funbook (Jon Carpenter Books, February 2006). See ordering information for the Funbook. Underlying the worldview of the secular Religion of Progress is the funda­mental assumption that the world is badly designed. God did a bad job, and it is [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/977/did-god-really-do-such-a-bad-job/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/733/sciences-superstitions/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/733/sciences-superstitions/#comments Sun, 31 Aug 1997 23:00:01 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=733 The cult of randomness and the taboo on teleology This article is an extended version of a combination of three chapters, 5, 26, and 27, of The Way: An ecological world view by Edward Goldsmith. It was first published in this form in The Ecologist Vol. 27 No. 5, 1997, under the title “Scientific Superstitions”. [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/733/sciences-superstitions/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/921/returning-to-an-ecological-way/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/921/returning-to-an-ecological-way/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 1992 00:00:56 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=921 Edward Goldsmith speaks at the Friends Of The Centre Annual Conference, 31 October 1992. The conference was organised by REEP in conjunction with Quaker group, Friends of the Centre. My talk is going to be more in the nature of a chat than a formal talk, so I apologise to my audience, especially after they [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/921/returning-to-an-ecological-way/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/890/evolution-neo-darwinism-and-the-paradigm-of-science/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/890/evolution-neo-darwinism-and-the-paradigm-of-science/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 1990 00:00:22 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=890 Neo-Darwinism does not provide a satisfactory explanation for evolution and however resilient it may prove to criticism, it must eventually give way to a more realistic theory. This can only occur if we abandon the reductionistic and mechanistic ‘paradigm of science’, which neo-Darwinism so faithfully reflects. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 20 No. 2, March–April [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/890/evolution-neo-darwinism-and-the-paradigm-of-science/feed/ 1 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/657/questioning-scientific-progress/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/657/questioning-scientific-progress/#comments Tue, 01 Jan 1985 00:00:44 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=657 Review of The Double-Edged Helix: Science and the Real World, Liebe F Cavalieri, Columbia University Press, New York, 1981 This book is part of the ‘Convergence’ series, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen. 193 pages including index In the introduction to The Double-Edged Helix, Ruth Nanda Anshen tells us why she created the ‘Convergence’ series of [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/657/questioning-scientific-progress/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/932/superscience-its-mythology-and-legitimisation/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/932/superscience-its-mythology-and-legitimisation/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 1981 23:00:45 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=932 A new breed of scientist sees no contradiction between ‘solving’ our present ecological crisis and calling for the development of such superstar technologies as fusion and genetic engineering. But, whilst intellectually elegant, the theory underpinning their Brave New World is sadly lacking. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 11 No. 5, September–October 1981. Erich Jantsch was [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/932/superscience-its-mythology-and-legitimisation/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/981/genetic-engineering/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/981/genetic-engineering/#comments Mon, 01 Jan 1979 15:51:33 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=981 A leading article for The Ecologist Vol. 28 No. 3, January–February 1979, by The Editors. Republished in The Doomsday Funbook (Jon Carpenter Books, February 2006). See ordering information for the Funbook. It has always been a major plank of those who support genetic engineering that today’s laboratory techniques are so sophisticated that the risks of [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/981/genetic-engineering/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/999/the-test-tube-fixation/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/999/the-test-tube-fixation/#comments Wed, 01 Jan 1975 00:00:21 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=999 A leading article for The Ecologist Vol. 5 No. 1, January 1975. Republished in The Doomsday Funbook (Jon Carpenter Books, February 2006). See ordering information for the Funbook. Scientists accept at least some of the blame for the mess we are in. That is why there is now a British Society for Social Responsibility in [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/999/the-test-tube-fixation/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/989/the-priesthood-of-industrial-society/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/989/the-priesthood-of-industrial-society/#comments Sat, 30 Sep 1972 23:00:17 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=989 A leading article for The Ecologist Vol. 2 No. 10, October 1972. Republished in The Doomsday Funbook (Jon Carpenter Books, February 2006). See ordering information for the Funbook. According to the early Christian world view, this life is but a preparation for the next. If people fulfil their duties towards God in the manner laid [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/989/the-priesthood-of-industrial-society/feed/ 1