Edward Goldsmith

In this issue Vol. 4. No. 4. May 1974

COMMENTS

Grandpa's tougher than we thought

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Edward Goldsmith

Nicholas Gould

Malcolm Slesser

Alan Berg

Nicholas Timasheff

K. R. Albone E. S. Albone

Kenneth Barlow et al.

FEATURE ARTICLES

The Ecology of War

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Competitiveness is no longer checked by natural restraints and the scale and destructiveness of aggression is increasing. To avert catastrophe new strategies must be devised

William Cobbett—Cottage Economist

The articulate spokesman for the most down-trodden member of English society, the rural worker

The Energy Ration

How to allocate energy in the most equitable fashion

Human Milk—A Natural Resource

Even aside from its advantages to health, human milk is a valuable substance which is being literally poured down the drain

The Attempt to Abolish the Family in Russia

Post-revolutionary zeal to destroy the family unit in Russia met with dismal failure

Journal Review

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Information for Survival

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Robert Waller

Tom Burke

REPORTS

Defending the Landscape

Friends of the Earth

Books

Letters

Self Sufficiency

Classified Advertisements

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Cover Photo: Axel Poignant We regret our failure to acknowledge the Radio Times Hulton Picture Library for the Photographs used in the article "Anarchism and Ecology" and on the cover, March/April Ecologist

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