Barry Commoner, 95
http://www.thenation.com/article/170251/remembering-barry-commoner
Remembering Barry Commoner
Described in 1970 by Time magazine as the "Paul Revere of ecology,"
Commoner followed Rachel Carson as America's most prominent modern
environmentalist. But unlike Carson, Commoner viewed the environmental
crisis as a symptom of a fundamentally flawed economic and social system.
A biologist and research scientist, he argued that corporate greed,
misguided government priorities, and the misuse of technology accounted
for the undermining of "the finely sculptured fit between life and its
surroundings."
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After serving in the Navy during World War II, Commoner was an associate
editor for Science Illustrated and then became a professor at Washington
University in St. Louis, Missouri, a position he held for thirty-four
years. There he founded, in 1966, the Center for the Biology of Natural
Systems to promote research on ecological systems. He later moved the
center to Queens College in New York.
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