Zac Goldsmith talks about how green issues are about more than morality. In his words, “It’s a hell of a lot more than that!”
Zac Goldsmith, the prominent environmental activist and editor of The Ecologist, explains that the old paradigm where the environment “has been seen as an (solely) ethical issue” downplays its importance as an economic one.
Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and the famous conservative philosopher and politician, Edmund Burke, Goldsmith outlines his belief that dialogue about economics is inseparable from dialogue about the environment. As he concludes, “there is no economy unless we have… a viable environment.”
