Letters & debates

Does development create or mitigate poverty? - Clare Short MP and Teddy Goldsmith discuss. Published in The Ecologist, April 2005.

My answer to a number of vitriolic attacks upon me and my philosophy, in particular those of Fabel van der Illegaal.

In this Letter to the Guardian, April 2002, Edward Goldsmith responds to charges made against him in the Guardian by commentator George Monbiot.

Cooking up rightwing connections - In this letter published in the Guardian on Tuesday 18 July 2000, Edward Goldsmith responds to "Age of Rage" by Fred Pearce.

Is science neutral? - a debate between Edward Goldsmith and Professor Lewis Wolpert. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 30 No. 3, May 2000.

Is free trade working for everyone? - letter published in Prospect Magazine No. 47, December 1999, written to Jagdish Bhagwati.

Damned over the dam - Letter published in the Guardian on Saturday 3 July 1999.

Open letter to Judy Maciejowska - this powerful letter, dated 8 March 1995, was written to Green Party activist Judy Maciejowska

You can only be judged on your record - a second Open Letter to Barber Conable, President of the World Bank, calling on him to make good on his and his predecessors promises of progress on the social and environmental impacts of the Bank's lending. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 17 No. 2, 1987.

Survival and Modernity - a dialogue on our times - Edward Goldsmith and Krishna Chaitanya in conversation. "The central thesis of this dialogue shared by the two thinkers ... is that the industrial way of life is no longer sustainable. It must end, one way or another, within the foreseeable future ...". First published by India International Centre - Quarterly, spring 1987, reprinted in Vivekananda Kendra Patrika, February 1988.

An open letter to Mr Clausen to Mr Alden Clausen, Retiring President of the World Bank, and Mr Barber Conable, President Elect, reflecting on the disastrous social and environmental record of the World Bank, and its consistent inability to advance beyond the mere rhetoric of reform. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 16 No. 2/3, 1986.

Mellanby versus theory and fact - The attack on Professor Kenneth Mellanby, which began in "What makes Kenny run?", continues. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 8 No. 5, September / October 1978.

What makes Kenny run? - a critique of Professor Kenneth Mellanby, with his response. "A man of distinction, erudition and considerable personal charm ... he has a big reputation in the academic world and passes for an ardent environmentalist." Yet he is here portrayed as a cynical, self-interested collaborator in global ecocide. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 8 No. 3, May / June 1978.

Letter to the directors of FAO - The FAO is pursuing with zeal its aim to increase African meat and livestock production through the mass spraying of insecticide, intended to eradicate the tsetse fly. The most probable outcome is famine and the decimation of Africa's wildlife. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 6 No. 6, July 1976.