Books by E. F. Schumacher
“Small is Beautiful was important for me as a lefty-political, as you’d say, in the early 1970s. It was one of the first books to suggest to me that there was another way. We were still in the Cold War, there was socialism one side and capitalism the other, and both doing whatever they were doing, and it seemed like a binary world. They were both employing large technologies in similar ways. Then along comes Small is Beautiful, which was literally talking about how things were better if they were smaller, how they were more efficient or economically better smaller. It was not directly environmentally framed, more socially framed, but it had huge environmental repercussions as well.” Read more...
Fred Pearce, Environmentalist
Interviews where books by E. F. Schumacher were recommended
Landmark Environmental Books, selected by Fred Pearce
The modern environmental movement emerged in the post-war world after humanity’s self-destructive capacity became undeniable, argues the veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce. Here, he highlights five landmark environmental books that have marked a shift in environmental thought.
