The purpose of this diverse collection of articles, lectures, broadcasts, letters to the press and unpublished material, is to place on record a few ideas - located at the intersections of science, philosophy and politics but being by no means the work of an expert in any of these areas - that I have written during the years from 1988 to 1998..

It is not intended that these writings be regarded as in any way final and definitive. They are to be viewed as exercises in 'kite-flying' ..... which more or less like-minded readers may wish to take up, or ignore, or improve upon as they please. The truth is that I think we have not merely a right but a duty ..... to throw ideas into the common pool of tentative wisdom; some may float, some may sink, some may lead somewhere, some may comfort the disturbed, some may disturb the comfortable, some may tell the reader something about the writer but nothing much about the world....

The scope of GREEN SCEPTICISM is wide and rests upon three main ideas: 1) that there is a real basis for concern as to the way we are impinging upon the biosphere; it is quite easy to believe that we may be damaging it more or less severely; 2) that identifying the steps we need to take, and the errors we need to avoid, is often exceedingly difficult and adherence to received wisdom - be it political, religious, scientific or even Green received wisdom - is most unwise and 3) Green endeavour is for everyone and so the principles of democracy in an open plural society are part of the GS package.

It follows that GREEN SCEPTCISM must embrace not only the obvious green questions but also a very wide-ranging critique of almost any department of thought or action and, moreover, a certain mildly satirical approach to received ideas has its place in this website.

I hope that some use can be made of some of this output.

The items listed below are, except for the first few, in roughly chronological order of writing or of publication as the case may be.

ERIC STOCKTON (1924-)

(This is one of the very few graphics items on this list)