Word: biologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Admiral Rufus Taylor explains: "We're not convinced that a chemical plant can control its effluents, or that any state agency or state laws can make it do so." One example that supports Taylor's claim is a small Tenneco chemical plant operating near Beaufort. A marine biologist recently sampled a downstream creek and found that the water was extremely acidic...
...OVERPOPULATION. Biologist Barry Commoner, the Washington University eco-activist, warned that current projections of six to eight billion people on earth (twice as many as now) presage global catastrophe "probably within the next generation." The upsurge, he said, will strain the earth's dwindling resources while endangering the stability of ecosystems that supply food, oxygen and water-the necessities of life. Technology can ease the pressure for now, added S. Fred Singer, a high official in the Interior Department, but the cost will be enormous-for example, between $43 billion and $66 billion just to curb U.S. water pollution...