Richard D North

Richard D North is an anti environmental journalist and campaigner who works with a range of right wing think tanks. (Not to be confused with the other Richard North who is a right-wing blogger).

North also runs or contributes to a number of anti-environmental websites, which he describes as follows:

I edit www.livingissues.com a family of websites including:

http://www.globalwarmingissues.com which interrogates conventional widsom

http://www.thegoodcorporation which looks at Corporate Social Responsibility

http://www.mediaandtrust.com which challenges journalistic and PR standards

http://www.chernobyllegacy.com which challenges nuclear doomsterism

http://www.pressurepolitics.com which interrogates NGOs and campaigners.

http://www.direct-action.info challenges extreme activism.

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History

• 2001 - editor, www.livingissues.com
• 2001 - media fellow, Institute of Economic Affairs
• 1990 - 1992 Sunday Times: Environment Columnist
• 1986 - 1990 Independent: Environment Correspondent

Affiliations

• European Science and Environment Forum
• Social Affairs Unit
• Institute of Economic Affairs - Media Fellow

References, Resources and Contact

Contact

Website: www.richarddnorth.com

Publications

• Life On a Modern Planet: A manifesto for progress (Manchester University Press, 95 and St Martin's Press, New York, 95)
• Hereditary Peers: The case as yet unheard (Social Affairs Unit, 1999);
• The Hunt At Bay (Wildlife Network, 1999);
• Risk: The human adventure (Institute for Economic Affairs, 2000);
• Fur and Freedom: A defence of the fur trade, Institute for Economic Affairs, 2000);
• GMOs at the start of the troubled biological century (2001).

Earlier books

• The Animals Report (Penguin, 82);
• Wild Britain (Century, 83);
• The Real Cost (Chatto and Windus, 84);
• Working the Land (with Charlie Pye-Smith, 85);
• Fools For God (Collins, 87);
• Schools for Tomorrow (Green Books, 87)

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