Kirkpatrick Sale

Kirkpatrick Sale
Kirkpatrick Sale in 1988
Born	(1937-06-27) June 27, 1937 (age 87) Ithaca, New York
Nationality	USA
Alma mater	Cornell University
Occupation(s)	Journalist, scholar, and author

Kirkpatrick Sale (born in Ithaca, New York, June 27, 1937) is an independent scholar and author who has written about political decentralism, environmentalism, luddism and technology. People say he has a "philosophy unified by decentralism"^[1] and as being "a leader of the Neo-Luddites,",^[2] an "anti-globalization leftist,"^[3] and "the theoretician for a new secessionist movement."^[4]

1. ↑ John F. Mongillo, Bibi Booth, Editors, Environmental activists, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 245, 2001, ISBN 0313308845, 9780313308840
2. ↑ Kevin Kelly, Interview with the Luddite, Wired Magazine, 1995.
3. ↑ Schwenkler, John (2008-11-03) Untied States Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine, The American Conservative
4. ↑ Peter Applebombe, A Vision of a Nation No Longer in the U.S., New York Times, October 18, 2007.