commoner
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The first book I read about it, some 50 years ago, was “The Closing Circle,” by Barry Commoner, which lays out the damage humans had already done to the ecosphere.
From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2022
Commoner wanted to avoid the traditional campaign’s emphasis on images and symbols.
From Time • Dec. 2, 2016
As individuals, the gaudy businessman from New York City and the Great Commoner from the prairies don’t have much in common.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 15, 2016
Some of the most influential leaders of the movement, including Barry Commoner and Rachel Carson, broadened their attention to other ways that technology seemed to threaten human health or nature itself.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2014
Yet Calvin Campbell after he recovered from the influence, said to himself: “That speech would not read well,” and this impression was confirmed when in later years he read many speeches of the Great Commoner.
From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Holt, Mathew Joseph
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