The Ecologist

Vol. 2 No. 6 June 1972

The Ecologist is printed on recycled paper

Edward Goldsmith

Gerald Foley

Peter Bunyard

John Davoll

Sam Lawrence

Michael Allaby

Jimoh Omo-Fadaka

Brian Johnson

Edward Goldsmith

Bruce Mackay

Peggy Crane

Editorial The Politics of Reality 3

Critique of the Stockholm Conference

Introduction The Ecologist Looks at Stockholm 4

Subject Area I You Can't Get There From Here 5

Subject Area I A Wasted Opportunity 10

Subject Area I I Planet-Eating 13

Subject Area II I Canute and the Pollutants 17

Subject Area IV Too Frightening for the Children ? 21

Subject Area V The Problem that Need Not Exist 23

Subject Area V An Alternative to Imperialist Development 27

Subject Area VI The Bureaucrat and the Biosphere 30

An Action Plan for the Human Environment 37

Two Skeletons in Stockholm's Cupboard

1. Population: The Issues they Can't Talk Away 38

2. Defence Vs. Environment 39

Books 43

Editor: E. R. D. Goldsmith', Deputy Editor: Robert Allen; Managing Editor: Michael Allaby; Associate editors: Peter Bunyard, John Davoll, Jimoh Omo Fadaka, Gerald Foley, Lawrence D. Hills, Brian Johnson, S. G. Lawrence, Jean Liedloff, Charles Maclean, John Papworth, Robert Waller. Production and design by The Soil Association. Administration: Joyce Robson. Editorial copy and advertising enquiries should be sent to The Editor, The Ecologist, 73 Kew Green, Richmond, Surrey. Telephone 01-948 0690.

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