Dedicated to Ian Whyte (1941–2025), a founding editor of the journal
The Ecological Citizen Vol 8 No 2 2025
Ian also urged people – that’s you and me! – to read (or reread) and engage with ‘A manifesto for Earth’ (https://is.gd/5wJjLA) by the important ecocentrics Stan Rowe and Ted Mosquin, the latter being a good friend of Ian’s and a major influence.
Finally, in line with the rest of his life and work, Ian’s ideas include not only ecocentrism as a worldview (see his co-authored, ‘Ecocentrism: What it means and what it implies’ [2018]: https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/v01n2-02.pdf) but valuable guidance on how to proceed, including the precautionary approach, the weight-of-evidence principle, the principle of reverse onus,
reverse matrix, frugality and simplicity, and the principle of do least harm. Do I need to add that Ian was never afraid to point to and name the elephant in the room, gross human overpopulation?
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