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:

www.globalwarmingissues.com which interrogates conventional widsom

www.thegoodcorporation which looks at Corporate Social Responsibility

www.mediaandtrust.com which challenges journalistic and PR standards

www.chernobyllegacy.com which challenges nuclear doomsterism

www.pressurepolitics.com which interrogates NGOs and campaigners.

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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