Who is Barry Commoner
Barry Commoner (May 28, 1917 – September 30, 2012) was an American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician. He was a leading ecologist and among the founders of the modern environmental movement. He was the director of the Center for Biology of Natural Systems and its Critical Genetics Project. He ran as the Citizens Party candidate in the 1980 U.S. presidential election. His work studying the radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing led to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963.Early life
Commoner was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 28, 1917, the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia. He received his bachelor's degree in zoology from Columbia University in 1937 and his master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University in 1938 and 1941, ...
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- Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.
- Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.
- The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
- Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
- The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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Recklesswhisper: everything is connected to everything else & there is no free lunch! barry commoner ^..^~~Death_thegarden: “in the eager search for the benefits of modern science and technology we have become enticed into a nearly fatal illusion: that through our machines we have at last escaped from dependence on the natural environment.” - barry commoner, the closing circle, 1971
Stvnyng: “there is no such thing as a free lunch.” barry commoner, 1971 -- a closing circle
Anthonyfreda10: in making peace with the planet dr barry commoner refers to the petrochemical industry as ‘unique’ and adds the comment that, “the petrochemical industry is inherently inimical to environmental quality.” dr commoner was critical of this industry because, as he explains, “not only…
Dunleamark: when i was a community organizer for acorn in des moines ia in mid-1970s, trains derailed there all the time at crossings in low-income communities. barry commoner in his citizens party presidential campaign in 1980 called to nationalize railroad tracks like we do with highways.
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