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-Barbara Ward and René Dubos. Only One Earth
THE WOOING OF EARTH by René Dubos Scribners; 183 pages; $8.95
Environmentalists view the world's wilderness areas as sacrosanct places that must be left untouched. Their concern strikes Essayist and Microbiologist Rene Dubos as ironic. Dubos, who is perhaps known best for his work in using microbes to produce disease-fighting drugs, points out that many of the areas...
Dubos's ideas will not appeal to those hard-line environmentalists who regard man as an interloper and a destroyer of the planet. The author, noting that all animals alter their environments, brilliantly marshals his evidence for an intelligent balance. He may not convince those whose idea of nature...
Yesterday's Phi Beta Kappa orator, microbiologist Rene Dubos, might well be named along with the others. So might retiring Divinity School Dean Krister Stendahl.