Trees and forests

The costs of modernization - Part One of the introduction to Green Britain or Industrial Wasteland by Edward Goldsmith and Nicholas Hildyard (Polity Press, February 1988).

Tropical forests: a plan for action - "deforestation spells cultural death for the millions of tribal peoples who depend on the forests for their livelihood. It threatens to condemn to extinction 50 to 90 percent of the world's species of plants, animals and insects ... ". Editorial article published in The Ecologist Vol. 17 No. 4/5, 1987.

The myth of flood control - published as Chapter 4 of The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: Volume 1. Overview. Wadebridge Ecological Centre, 1984. By Edward Goldsmith and Nicholas Hildyard.

Richard St Barbe Baker: a tribute - "I picture village communities of the future living in valleys protected by sheltering trees on the high ground. They will have fruit and nut orchards and live free from disease and enjoy leisure, liberty and justice for all, living with a sense of their one-ness with the earth and with all living things ... ". Published in The Ecologist Vol. 12 No. 4, July / August 1982.

World Ecological Areas Programme: a proposal - Edward Goldsmith presents a plan to save the tropical forests, based on paying tropical countries to conserve, expand and make sustainable economic use of their forests. Published in Environmental Conservation Vol. 7 No. 1, winter 1981.

A man of the trees - an indefatigable champion of forests, Richard St Barbe Baker has travelled worldwide persuading governments and people of the value of trees. He has battled on behalf of the Redwoods of California and planted trees in the Sahara in an attempt to halt the encroaching desert. Recently he visited Cornwall. Edward Goldsmith talks to him... Published in The Ecologist Vol. 9 No. 7, October / November 1979.

The future of tree diseases - What has caused the epidemics that are currently decimating our trees? The factors involved are intimately linked to economic development - and the only hope for our trees lies in de-industrialisation. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 9, Nos. 4-5, August 1979.

Can prosperity be brought to Fatehpur? - Article by Edward Goldsmith published in the Ecologist Quarterly No. 2, summer 1978. Poverty is caused, not by lack of goods and money, but by the destruction of ecological capital. It follows that the solution to poverty is not 'development' but to rebuild ecological capital.