Paul Harrison (pantheist)

[2] For most of his life, Harrison has been a journalist and writer on the environment, Third-World development and poverty.

Harrison has worked for six UN agencies and travelled to many Third-World countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

He was the lead author of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Atlas of Population and Environment.

[11] Harrison was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England, and has master's degrees in European languages and literature (University of Cambridge 1963-66) and political sociology (London School of Economics 1967-8), and in 1995 a PhD from Cambridge in Earth Sciences and Geography.

[7] In July 1996 he posted the first page of what became the scientific pantheism site, and in 1997 he started the mailing list that grew into the World Pantheist Movement.

Paul Harrison at Gardens by the Sea in Singapore 2012
Paul Harrison testing the weight of a woman's firewood load in Burkina Faso 1989