Richard D North

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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:

My www.livingissues.com is a family of websites helping young people deal with difficult issues, including www.globalwarmingissues.com.
My www.direct-action.info challenges extreme activism.
My www.chernobyllegacy.com challenges the myths surrounding the 1986 disaster

History

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

Publications

Author, Life On a Modern Planet: A manifesto for progress (Manchester University Press, 95 and St Martin's Press, New York, 95)

Recent pamphlets

  • 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)

Source [1]

Website: www.richarddnorth.com

Affiliations