Prescient words from Teddy Golsmith

Extinction within several decades – Edward Goldsmith’s 1989 prediction

Edward ('Teddy') Goldsmith, founder of the Ecologist magazine was like a grandfather to the ecological movement. 

Teddy Goldsmith was one of my greatest influences from the end of the 80's when he stated categorically that if nothing was done mankind would be extinct within a few decades.

He also accurately identified the reasons why it it was highly unlikely that anything would be done.

All this back in 1989 -90

"New Lamps for Old" - interview with Edward Goldsmith

Satish Kumar interviews Teddy Goldsmith founder of The Ecologist magazine and author of "The Way: an ecological world view"

"Edward Goldsmith - The Green Revolutionary"

Edward 'Teddy' Goldsmith, the grandfather of the modern environmental movement argues that the planetary crisis facing us today cannot be solved by further economic progress and technological innovation but only through the cooperative efforts of ordinary people guided by their faith in traditional wisdom

Part 1 - The Problem: industrial society

Part 2 - The Solution: people and planet

First aired as part of Channel 4's Fragile Earth series 1990, UK

Edward Goldsmith - Corporate Organized Crime (1992)

Edward Goldsmith describes how many multinational corporations amount to little more than vast criminal enterprises (1992).