10/1/12


by Peter Dreier
Barry Commoner, a pioneering environmental scientist and activist, died Sunday at age 95.Described in 1970 by Time magazine as the "Paul Revere of ecology," Commoner followed Rachel Carson as America's most prominent modern environmentalist. He viewed the environmental crisis as a symptom of a fundamentally flawed economic and social system...
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/01-1