The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology
Random House Inc, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper in red cursive: "To Eileen L. Johnston, with the good wishes of Barry Commoner." Johnston was the 1994 recipient of the Richard Beattly Mellon Environmental Stewardship Award. On the rear of the FFEP are three additional signatures: one from Bruce Ingersoll, journalist for the Chicago Sun-Times and the paper's first "environmental reporter," and two from officials of the Illinois Pollution Control Board,--Tom Harkes [sp?] and Jacob D. Dumelle--both dated Dec. 10, 1971, the year of publication. Chapter five of the book is about ground pollution in Illinois, meaning likely these signatures represent researchers or subjects important to the book. Barry Commoner was an important environmentalist who was called the "Paul Revere of ecology." Famously he had a debate with Paul Ehrlich, arguing that Ehrlich and his disciples were overly fixated on overpopulation as the source of environmental problems and coercive solutions when technological and social advances might instead result in necessary change. The Closing Circle is his second book and most influential. Uncommon signed, and rare with these additional signatures, which make it an association copy. An important piece in the U.S. environmental canon. Fine book but with some marginal lines, brackets, and tick marks to the the first chapter. Fine / Near Fine. Item #ABE-1621223689680
ISBN: 039442350X
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