The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology

I regard him as right and compassionate on nearly every major issue." - Stephen Jay Gould A radical argument about the root causes of climate change, this landmark work was progressive when it was written in 1971, and its message remains equally relevant today. A must-read for anyone concerned with how the global economy contributes to climate change and what steps can be taken to save the planet. "Readers interested in the history of environmental thought will be fascinated to see how many of today's crises were already understood almost fifty years ago. We've made progress in a few places, but it's hard to read Commoner's prescient warnings without a sigh for how little attention we've actually paid to these great challenges." - Bill McKibben, author of Falter and The End of Nature AUTHOR: Barry Commoner (1917 2012) is considered the father of modern ecology and one of the world's most progressive thinkers and scientist-activists. Credited with creating the four informal rules of ecology, he followed Marxist ideals that led him to posit that climate change is driven by capitalist means of production rather than overpopulation. In 1980 he ran for President of the United States on his own Citizens Party ticket.