Edward Goldsmith - The Way: An ecological world View.

The economic activities of modern day man are interfering ever more dramatically with the fundamental Gaian cycles – water, carbon, sulphur, phosphorus – thus disrupting the critical order of the biosphere and reducing its capacity to support life. This is unfortunately inevitable if economic development remains modern man’s overriding goal. For it is a one-way process, in which the biosphere is systematically transformed into the technosphere and technospheric waste – a process that cannot continue indefinitely.

Todays Green Thought comes from Edward Goldsmiths 1992 book The Way: An ecological world View.

Edward Goldsmith (1928 -  2009 widely known as Teddy Goldsmith), was an Anglo-French environmentalist, founder of The People Party (later to become The Ecology Party and eventually The Green Party) and founding editor and publisher of The Ecologist magazine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Goldsmith

Stan Rowe - ‘Earth Alive: Essays on Ecology’

Such plans are at odds with harmonising humans and their lifestyles, with the resources of the ecological regions where they live – which seems to me the only long term definition of ecological sustainability. Finding and testing models of sustainable living is humanity’s most important task today in all Earth’s ecological regions that have been infected with industrial ideas of progress.

 

Todays Green Thought comes from the 2006 book ‘Earth Alive: Essays on Ecology’ by Stan Rowe. In the section “Water and civilisations”, he comments on the large scale transfer of water from wet regions to dry.  

http://www.ecospherics.net/index.html

Michael E. Soule & John Terborgh

“The absence of top predators appears to lead inexorably to ecosystem simplification accompanied by a rush of extinctions.”

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from the American conservation biologists Michael E. Soule and John Terborgh in their 1999 book ‘Continental Conservation’

Richard St. Barbe Baker

Man has lost his way in the jungle of chemistry and engineering and will have to retrace his steps, however painful this may be. He will have to discover where he went wrong and make his peace with nature. In so doing, perhaps he may be able to recapture the rhythm of life and the love of the simple things of life, which will be an ever-unfolding joy to him.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from the late Richard St. Barbe Baker forester and author, reputedly responsible for the planting/preserving of 26 trillion trees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_St._Barbe_Baker