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Task Force. Despite the problems, scientists are not about to give up. Ecologist Barry Commoner, working with a group called Scientists' Institute for Public Information, has helped launch a "task force on mercury pollution." That force is made up of 25 experts who will list the best methods for dealing with mercury pollution and then distribute the list to scientists around the country, as well as to Government agencies...
There are very few motor vehicles. There are thousands of bicycles. A sort of ecologist's dream. The bicycles are left around unlocked and there seems to be very little crime. Again, I'm not offering any simple explanations, but the difference between Hanoi and Saigon is just enormous...
...subsidiarity" in government-solving problems at the lowest level possible. The doctrine is not so far removed from the New Left's idea of community control. He has somewhat complicated his Viet Nam position by arguing that U.S. troops there should be volunteers. He is also a serious ecologist who has made expeditions to the Arctic and once considered becoming an ornithologist. The environmental crisis, he believes, is one issue that the Federal Government must tackle itself...
...cities pay for pollution control. Says Stanford University Population Biologist Paul Ehrlich: "It should be made perfectly clear that when the Government sets out to ban the use of DDT, society ought to do something to ease the transition for people who previously engaged in the manufacture of DDT." Ecologist Barry Commoner, who heads the botany department at Washington University, goes a step further. "Every one of the ecological changes needed for the sake of preserving our environment is going to place added stress within the social structure," he says. "We really can't solve the environmental crisis without...
Unlike the radical conservationists and doomsday ecologists in the lower 48 states, Alaska's environmentalists do not object to growth?as long as it is controlled. Thus Ecologist Robert Weeden asks for a "land ethic" that would avoid urban America's pollution, develop recreation areas and "help defend those delightfully 'useless' animals, plants and empty miles that might be the ultimate salvation...