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1 day ago · Concern about invisible radiation served as a foundation for new ways of thinking about chemical risks for activists like Rachel Carson and Barry Commoner as well as many scientists, government officials, and the broader public.
4 days ago · “The system,” Commoner writes, “is stabilized by its dynamic self-compensating properties; these same properties, if overstressed, can lead to a dramatic collapse.” Further, “the ecological system is an amplifier, so that a small perturbation in one place may have large, distant, long-delayed effects elsewhere.”
5 days ago · — Washington University biologist Barry Commoner. “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.” — New York Times editorial. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make.
6 days ago · In the 1970s, Barry Commoner, suggesting a left-wing response to The Limits to Growth model that predicted catastrophic resource depletion and spurred environmentalism, postulated that capitalist technologies were chiefly responsible for environmental degradation, as opposed to population pressures.
1 day ago · Tragedy of the commons - Wikipedia. Industrial pollution is one of the consequences of operators ignoring their effect on the shared environment. The tragedy of the commons is a metaphoric label for a concept that is widely discussed, and criticised, in economics, ecology and other sciences.
Jun 14, 2024 · These magnificent trees are a landscaper's dream with the beautiful smooth white bark - they can grow up to 60 feet. The garden was past its prime for daffodils, but a few of the azaleas and rhodendrons were putting on a show.
Jun 18, 2024 · Barry Commoner, the well known environmental writer and theorist, first developed the equation in the 70s, later modified into the form I=P.C.T...
