Word: ecologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buffeted by a public atmosphere that has grown chronically and pervasively cautionary. Apprehensive outcries wail forth from broadcasts, newspapers, magazines, posters, labels, environmental journals, medical tracts, Government reports, even books. One of the books is a brand-new broadside by Dr. Charles T. McGee, a clinical ecologist of Alamo, Calif., who is quoted above. His 220-page polemic issues a general alarm about multifarious dangers that lurk in every nook and cranny of contemporary civilization. Even fluorescent lighting, he says, may, in some weird way, weaken the muscles. The book, billed as a "crash course in protecting your health from...
...easy to dismiss such tiny projects as tinkering?as it is easy to dismiss the wood-stove phenomenon. Crab wastes and the body heat of chickens are not going to save postindustrial America (though Ecologist Barry Com- moner believes that methane, generated from a wide variety of wastes and especially grown crops, could stretch declining natural gas supplies and help the U.S. bridge the 50-year period before it can achieve what he thinks possible: a completely solar-powered society). But the Department of Energy does not dismiss such ideas?and there may be wisdom here. What the woodburners...
...GROUP OF leading liberals, fearing that Kennedy may abandon the faith, have banded together to advance their own candidate--probably ecologist Barry Commoner--in 1980. The new Citizens Party hopes to draw on the common belief that the Democratic and Republican Parties are more alike than different and have failed to address the causes of the nation's economic failures...
...hence of atavistic concern); it is also the arena where the last act in a long American drama is being played out. McPhee characterizes the struggle as "the Dallas scenario versus the Sierra Club syndrome"-developers versus conservationists, with many conflicting interests between them. McPhee is no reflexive ecologist; he compares the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to "a thread laid across Staten Island." Neither is he sanguine about the many ways man can find to make a vast space less wondrous. Discussing the psychic need for a frontier, he writes: "People are mentioning outer space as, in this respect...
...benefit for the movement to protect whales and dolphins will feature two films at the Orson Welles Cinema at noon. Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Dolphins is a documentary on some of the ecologists who try to stop the killing of marine animals by harassing Soviet whaling fleets. These guys are dedicated: during some of their forays, they maneuver their small boats so as to interpose themselves between the whaling ships and the whales, and stand there while explosive harpoons aimed at the whales whiz past their heads. They lecture the crews of the ships in Russian in an attempt...