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René J. Dubos, Sc.D., microbiologist.
The prevailing view among environmentalists is that if the world does not end with a bang, it will expire with a strangled cough. Ecologist Kenneth Watt says that with auto exhausts increasing nitrogen in the air, "it's only a matter of time before light will be filtered out...
"My life philosophy," Dubos says in polished, French-accentuated English, "is based upon a faith in the immense resiliency of nature. When man realizes that technology cannot solve all human problems, nature bounces back from our abuses. The fundamental aberration of scientific technology during the past 100 years is embodied...
Man with a Mission. Dubos feels that society ultimately will reach the point where production and consumption must slow down as the world's natural resources are depleted, despite efforts to use them more efficiently. While U.S. population grows at the rate of about 1% a year, energy consumption...
Enlarge GM's Board of Directors from 24 to 27 seats, adding three representatives of the public. The group's candidates were Betty Furness, President Johnson's special assistant for consumer affairs; Rene Dubos, a University of Chicago biologist and environmentalist; and the Rev. Channing Phillips, a civil rights leader...