Edward Goldsmith

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Edward ('Teddy') Goldsmith (born 1928 in Paris, France) is an Anglo-French environmentalist and eco-philosopher.

The eldest son of Major Frank Goldsmith, and elder brother of billionaire Sir James Goldsmith, Edward Goldsmith was the editor of The Ecologist magazine from its foundation in 1969 until 1990, and then again from 1997 until 1998. He has now been succeeded by his nephew Zac Goldsmith.

Goldsmith is particularly well known for his anti-industrial, rural beliefs, and sympathy for tribal and other traditional peoples and their belief systems. He calls for conservation and organic farming. He represents a Romantic strain in the green movement that nostalgically looks back to a world before the Industrial Revolution, indeed before the advent of civilisation.

A founder of The Ecology Party (which became the Green Party) Goldsmith's variant of environmentalism has put him at odds with the current left-wing British Green Party but has won him support among members of the Conservative Old Right.

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Can Britain Survive? (Editor. 1971).
Blueprint for Survival (Co-author. Penguin, 1972).
The Stable Society (Author. 1978).
La Médecine à la Question (Editor & part author. 1981).
The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams :
Volume I 1984 (Co-author).
Volume II 1986 (Co-editor).
Volume III 1992 (Co-editor).
The Great U-Turn: De-industrialising Society (Author. Green Books, 1988).
The Earth Report (Co-editor. 1988).
Gaia, the Thesis, the Mechanisms and the Implications (Co-editor. 1988).
Gaia and Evolution (Co-editor. 1990).
5,000 Days to Save the Planet (Co-author. 1990).
The Way: an ecological world view (Author. 1992).
The Case Against the Global Economy: and for a turn towards the local (Co-editor with Jerry Mander. 1996).
Le Piège se Referme (The trap snaps shut again) (Editor. 2001).