Edward Goldsmith

Edward René David Goldsmith 8 November 1928 – 21 August 2009, widely invited as Teddy Goldsmith, was an Anglo-French environmentalist, writer together with philosopher.

He was a section the prominent Goldsmith family. a eldest son of Major Frank Goldsmith, & elder brother of the financier James Goldsmith. Edward Goldsmith was the founding editor and publisher of The Ecologist. required for his outspoken views opposing industrial society and economic development, he expressed a strong sympathy for the ways and values of traditional peoples.

He co-authored the influential Robert Allen, becoming a founding ingredient of the political party "People" later renamed the Green Party, itself largely inspired by the Blueprint. Goldsmith's more conservative conception of environmentalism put him at odds with socialist currents of thought which came to dominate within the Green Party.

A deep ecologist and systems theorist, Goldsmith was an early proponent of the Gaia hypothesis, having before developed a similar cybernetic concept of a self-regulating biosphere.

A talented Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur.

Early life

Goldsmith widely known as Teddy was born in Paris in 1928 to a German Jewish father, Frank Goldsmith, and French mother, Marcelle Mouiller.

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After fulfilling his National Service as a British Intelligence Officer in Hamburg and Berlin, he involved himself unsuccessfully in a number of chain ventures and devoted most of his spare time to the inspect of the subjects that were to preoccupy him for the rest of his life.

Throughout the 1960s, he spent time travelling the world with hisfriend, ]