Jack Fahland/St. Louis Globe Democrat Barry Commoner in 1971 at Washington University in St. Louis. He believed pollution, war and inequality were related issues.
Barry Commoner, a founder of modern ecology and one of its most provocative thinkers and mobilizers in making environmentalism a people’s political cause, died on Sunday in Manhattan.
Dr. Commoner was a leader among a generation of scientist-activists who
recognized the toxic consequences of America’s post-World War II
technology boom, and one of the first to stir the national debate over
the public’s right to comprehend the risks and make decisions about
them.
Raised in Brooklyn during the Depression and trained as a biologist at
Columbia and Harvard, he came armed with a combination of scientific
expertise and leftist zeal. His work on the global effects of
radioactive fallout, which included documenting concentrations of
strontium 90 in the baby teeth of thousands of children, contributed
materially to the adoption of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963.
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