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by RENE DUBOS
Roszak argues from Apocalypse. He might well ask: What other choice does man have today? At first glance, René Dubos, a distinguished microbiologist and Pulitzer prizewinner (So Human an Animal), seems to agree. Like a proper New Arcadian, he writes: "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a...
But Dubos, unlike Roszak, is not possessed by a thesis. While deploring man's policy of conquest toward nature, he denies masochistic readers the tidy comfort of feeling that ecological abuses are the exclusive products of the Judaeo-Christian tradition and modern technology. Plato, he points out, testified to...
The conferees fretted continually about the consequences of industrialization. Microbiologist Rene Dubos, generally the most optimistic of the U.S.'s major ecologists, said that modern farmers are putting more energy into the soil (in the form of mechanization, fertilizers and pesticides) than they are taking out in the form...
Rene J. Dubos, Sc.D., microbiologist.